Bruce Broughton is an Emmy Award-winning composer who loves to write music for the movies. He also likes to write music for kids. Bruce has created a very special piece of music for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra called Modular Music II. He made this music just so that kids could be part of composing in a very real way. Wait until you hear how!

Kids are chosen to help out with the composing. First , they listen to 4 melodies played on the piano, then they each choose a tune and any solo instrument to play that tune. They might choose a violin, a cello, a bassoon, or even a xylophone (a funny sounding keyboard which is played with little hammers, very cool!). Music happens when the themes are played and joined by the orchestra. Kids create the sounds together with the musicians, they participate in making the music, their own World Premiere!

Bruce thinks we should all learn to think about the color of sound and how music is made with melody, rhythm, and patterns. He lets kids have the fun to shape and experiment with the creation of music. Listen to what one kid said after being part of the Modular Music II:
“Your beautiful lovely music opened my heart and turned it into a music box.”