Young People’s
Concerts

Link Up

Thursday, May 21, 2020, Overture Center for the Arts
10:15 a.m. & 12:15 p.m.
Randal Swiggum, Conductor

Link Up is a music education program created by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute that gives students in grades 3-5 the opportunity to explore music through a yearlong curriculum of classroom activities during which they learn to play the soprano recorder. A culminating concert brings the students into Overture’s Capitol Theater to perform with the MSO!

Would you like to participate?

Link Up begins in September and finishes with the interactive concerts on May 19. Seats for the MSO’s youth concerts are $4 per student. Parents, teachers, and chaperones are free of charge with groups over 10 students. Subsidized tickets are available depending on your school’s participation in the free/reduced lunch program.

If you have any questions, please contact MSO Education Assistant Lisa Kjentvet at (608) 257-3734 or lkjentvet@madisonsymphony.org.

The Curriculum

This year, the MSO is presenting The Orchestra Sings, which is all about melody. Classroom activities will guide students through the exploration of popular orchestra repertoire, and students will learn to play popular classical melodies such as Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony and Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” on recorder. The lessons will also develop students’ skills in listening, note-reading, rhythm, improvisation, composition, and ensemble and rehearsal skills.

General information for Link Up

Curriculum information for Orchestra Sings

I enjoyed performing with you and it sounded very nice. I hope I see you again. I had a lot of fun!

4th Grade Student

A principal from [another school] was there and said it was the best educational field trip he had ever been to!!

Webster and Lebanon Teacher