Music Alive! Programs
Music Alive! is an exciting series featuring engaging, entertaining and informative events to enrich your Arizona Musicfest experience.
Over 3,000 members of the Musicfest Community attended Music Alive! lessons, lectures, discussion groups, and more during the past four seasons. Learn more about each of our programs by clicking on the tabs to the left and find a program to drop into!
Discover new music, share your favorites, and meet other music enthusiasts in this music listening club. Music & Muffins offers explorations and lively discussion on a wide range of genres that complement the Musicfest concert season.
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Hear prominent local scholars, the Musicfest program annotator, and the Manager of Education, Youth, and Community Programs discuss diverse musical genres, pieces, and concepts. Enrich your Musicfest concert experience by attending one of these related events!
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Join us for our annual four-part deep dive into one of the great works of the Orchestral Tradition! Musicfest U: Pictures at an Exhibition explores Mussorgsky’s masterwork through engaging lectures, listening sessions, and audience participation.
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Pop in an hour before downbeat for a 45-minute exploration of the pieces to be performed by the Festival Orchestra (Feb 16-23). Illuminate your concert-going experience through these special events!
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Enjoy a bag of popcorn and a film with friends! Musicfest at the Movies screens documentaries and popular movies related to the Musicfest season, followed by a talk-back session.
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It’s never too late to experience the joy of music-making! Musicfest Senior Strummers consists of three series of group lessons on the beautiful and easy-to-learn ukulele. Out of the Box Beginner, Beginner, and Intermediate Sessions available, depending on prior experience.
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Piano Fusion is the solution to Lonely Pianist Syndrome! This program connects amateur pianists through chamber music by offering 4-, 8-, and even 16-hand piano arrangements. If you can read music, you’ll fit right in; all levels welcome!
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HealthRhythms, sponsored by AARP, is a group drumming and music-making program that connects, empowers and gets people to interact together in ways that they have not before. Regardless of one’s level of music ability or inability, the sessions are about using the drums as a fun gateway activity to build community using recreational music-making – simply put, making-music for joy, community and to let go of some stress. It’s for everyone, because anyone can drum!