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Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute’s (WMI) Link Up program: The Orchestra Sings will be presented on Wednesday, March 18, at Westhill High School in Stamford.
All of the Stamford Public School's third-graders -- about 1,350 students -- are participating in a yearlong, hands-on music curriculum about orchestral repertoire.
Carnegie Hall’s WMI provided professional development and teacher guidebooks. Specific concepts taught to students include rhythm, melody, tempo, orchestration and composition.
Teachers guide students in exploring music through a composer’s lens, with students participating in music making, performing repertoire on a recorder, voice or body percussion as well as creating music compositions inspired by orchestral music they have studied.
The culmination of the yearlong program will conclude with Wednesday's concert.
Students will sing and play the recorder alongside the Stamford Symphony. This performance often serves as a student’s first concert experience and provides them with the opportunity to apply the learning of musical concepts they have studied.
"The Link Up program for third grade students is a perfect complement to the current American Experience concert, which is presented to fourth- and fifth-graders in the district. We are dedicated to ensuring that all students are made aware of classical and orchestral music,'' said Barbara Soroca, CEO and President of Stamford Symphony.
Link Up’s national partnership grew out of the program’s ongoing work with the New York City’s schools through which Carnegie Hall has engaged hundreds of thousands of students in musical learning since its inception in 1985.
Visit www.stamfordsymphony.org for more information.
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