Education

Allow us to act as your "link" to the live music experience. The ASO is working to enrich the quality of young lives in our area, engaging the audiences of tomorrow through educational programming and hands-on activities.

Join us for an educational musical event this year! Beginning at 10am, before our 11am condensed matinee performance, our professional musicians (and their instruments) will be available for your children’s enjoyment. This is a great hands-on opportunity and a powerful way to introduce young children to a variety of instruments.

Classical Kids Live!

By partnering with professional orchestras, the Classical Kids Live! symphony concert series helps to enrich the communities that it serves through direct access to culturally significant venues, professional artists, organizations, and productions, while fostering new appreciation for classical music and music history. Each production inspires audiences with more than twenty-five musical excerpts, which are woven into the drama as two professional actors share anecdotes and observations based on true incidents from the composer’s life. The fully-staged productions, including Beethoven Lives Upstairs, Tchaikovsky Discovers America, Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery, Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage and Gershwin’s Magic Key, are underscored by approximately fifty on-stage musicians and feature period costumes, props, set pieces and theatrical lightning.