Concert Drama

 
 

Scripted musical productions

for Symphonies, Schools, and Communities

Orchestral Programs for Young Audiences

(45-50 minutes each)

Jennifer Sacher Wiley, author


Concert Invasion

    Educational Goal:  music fundamentals

    Technical Needs:  white flashlights, screen, body mics helpful

    Repertoire:  original work- Patrick Long’s “Alien Invasion”, short standard excerpts


Outside the Music Box

    Educational Goal:  connection between art and music

    Technical Needs:  Multi-colored lights, screen, computer graphic program, amplification

    Repertoire:  original work- Patrick Long’s “Color Concerto”, short standard excerpts/arrangements


Composer Encounter

    Educational Goal:  music history

    Technical Needs:  amplification

    Repertoire:  medium length excerpts by Handel, Mozart, Sibelius, Ives


Beethoven’s Theater

    Educational Goal:  drama in sonata form

    Technical Needs:  amplification

    Repertoire:  Beethoven, Symphony No. 2, 1st movement

Thank you for coming to our school to play your wonderful songs.  The new song played at the end was a spooky and great song to play.


Concert Drama from Jennifer Sacher Wiley has been delighting audiences of all ages since 1999.  Shows can be rented by professional/community orchestras for family concerts.  Or school and community groups can hear a show presented by the Susquehanna University Orchestra.  New this year, chamber music groups from SU will be presenting a show geared for grades 6-12.

Options for professional/community orchestras


  1. •Rent show only, use all your own actors, conductor, musicians

  2. •Rent show with Jennifer Sacher Wiley as facilitator and/or guest conductor

  3. •Rent show with JSW and SU actors

  4. •Rent show with JSW and Patrick Long (recommended for high-tech shows)

  5. •Include your Young Artist Competition winner in the program (scripts adaptable)

Options for schools/community productions (with SU faculty/student performers)


• 45-50 minute assembly for Concert Drama program

  1. •Request SU students to present informal lecture-demos to individual classrooms

  2. •Present Concert Drama in side-by-side format with HS or MS orchestra (youth orchestras, too!)

The actors were great at all the parts. 

They all had energy, lots of spirit, and weren’t afraid to say things very loudly.

Composer Patrick Long has created two original works for orchestral Concert Drama. 


He also has acted in two touring SU productions and designs & implements all technology components.

Contact jswiley@susqu.edu for more information.