December and Year End recitals are important for students to learn performance skills and share what they have accomplished with friends and family.  Recitals typically have an overarching theme which engages the audience and often invites their participation.  Students learn that music is not a passive experience. Music is a social experience which engages both the performer and the audience.  For example, recitals have:

   -Features students playing duets with family members

   -Invited the audience to sing along with well known tunes

 - Provide the audience with homemade percussion instruments to play along