Alabama Symphony Orchestra
Learning from Home with the ASO - From virtual classrooms and Zoom lessons, to the repurposed dining room table and beyond - the ASO has gathered a variety of materials to help your child or student flourish in their continuing music education.
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To support the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, you can submit a donation online.
Alexandria Symphony Orchestra
The Alexandria Symphony Orchestra's Sympatico Program has engaged international teaching artist Daniel Trahey to lead five weeks of online collective composition workshops that will focus on social emotional health, independent learning, and building strong ensembles from afar. Sympatico teachers as well as select ASO musicians will also participate in the project.
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To support the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, visit their website.
Anchorage Symphony Orchestra
Music Education Resources - The Anchorage Symphony is proud to partner with the Anchorage School District to offer learning resources and activities for music students of all ages.
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To support the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, you can submit a donation online.
Asheville Symphony
ASO at Home - From music videos to informative educational talks to behind the scenes footage – we’ve got you covered. From our homes to yours, enjoy!
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To support the Asheville Symphony, you can submit a donation online.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Educational Activities - BSO musicians provide online masterclasses and introductory videos about their instruments for young audiences. Tutorial videos of crafts will be posted for parents to make with their children, similar to the crafts for pre-concert activities for Music Box and Family concerts. Special appearances will take place on the BSO Families Facebook group such as songs by BSO Music Box host Maria Broom, as well as a discussion between Associate Conductor Nicholas Hersh and a Hubble Telescope scientist.
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To support the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, visit their website.
Boston Symphony Orchestra
BSO HomeSchool - An archive of Youth & Family Concert lesson plans, as well as videos created by BSO Musicians that cover a wide variety of topics from demonstrations, tutorials, and more. New content uploaded every Wednesday.
To support the Boston Symphony Orchestra, visit their website.
Canton Symphony Orchestra
Music Education from Home - This series was crafted by Community Engagement and Education Manager, Rachel Hagemeier, to provide additional activities for young musicians to do while the stay-at-home order is in place.
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To support the Canton Symphony Orchestra, you can submit a donation online.
Center for Musical Arts
Register - As the year-round educational arm of the Colorado Music Festival, the Center for Musical Arts is offering online instrument lessons and online pay-what-you-can music classes including Music Together™ for toddlers and families, jazz studies, and more. Join them on Facebook for free, live music.
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To support the Center for Musical Arts, visit their website.
Chicago Sinfonietta
Virtual Music Lessons - Many musicians in the Chicago Sinfonietta family are working remotely after canceled concerts and engagements, and are offering virtual music lessons via Skype, Zoom, and FaceTime. If there is a musician available to teach the instrument you are learning, the CS team will connect you to learn more.
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To support the Chicago Sinfonietta, you can submit a donation online.
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Learning Resources - Daily learning activities for at-home music lovers of all ages.
To support the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, visit their website.
The Cleveland Orchestra
From Our Home to Yours Videos (all ages) - Listen to members of The Cleveland Orchestra perform (virtually) from your home! New videos added weekly!
PNC Music Explorers Web Series (PreK-2) - The PNC Music Explorers web series gives students, teachers, and families a fun-filled opportunity to explore the instruments of the Orchestra one at a time. With lively and friendly hosts Major Scale and Ranger Rhythm, young people ages 3-6 (and their families) will discover how the instruments make their sound, what they’re made of, and other unexpected fun facts!
Learning Through Music Lesson Library (PreK-5) - Jump-start your at-home lessons with arts-integrated lesson plans created by The Cleveland Orchestra! Search the online lesson database by grade and subject. For lessons with books, check out your local library for free downloadable e-books. Northeast Ohio residents can open a free account with Cuyahoga County Public Library at https://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/Borrow/Digital-Collection.aspx
Music Education Video Resources (PreK-8) - Videos will equip parents and teachers with activities for learning and musical exploration. New videos will be added weekly!
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Cleveland Orchestra Coloring Book
To support The Cleveland Orchestra, you can submit a donation online.
Cleveland Institute of Music
Weekly Social Media Showcase of Student and Faculty Concerts from the CIM Archives - To showcase the incredible talent of CIM’s students and faculty and continue to deliver the joy of music to Cleveland and the world, beginning Monday, March 23, the 100-year-old Conservatory will post archival video recordings of some of its most spectacular ensemble, opera and solo performances every Monday and Wednesday at 6pm and Friday at 12:30pm.
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To support Cleveland Institute of Music, you can submit a donation online.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Virtual Classes for Young Musicians - The Dallas Symphony Orchestra launched a Young Musicians Program in Southern Dallas in summer camps in 2019 and after-school programs in five schools in September 2019. Almost 500 children have participated in the program thus far, which includes free instruments for the students and 6-8 hours of music per week as part of the after-school programs. With school cancellations caused by COVID-19, the DSO has morphed its Young Musicians and Young Strings initiatives to provide virtual music instruction during this period when schools are closed. Classes and individual instruction have been moved online with curriculum and lesson plans created to facilitate remote learning.
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DSO Young Musicians Promotional YouTube Video
To support the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, visit their website.
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Denver Young Artists Orchestra
The Denver Young Artists Orchestra goes digital to continue offering orchestra rehearsals as well as its educational programs to the community. DYAO is restructuring its weekly rehearsal format to create new learning opportunities for its members. Every week, the DYAO will host a special online session with guests who will focus on different techniques and best practices.
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To support the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, you can submit a donation online.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
DSO Classroom Edition - The Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Educational Concert Series (ECS) has introduced students to classical music for more than 80 years. With special hosts and thoughtfully chosen music, these concerts bring kids inside the orchestra.
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To support Detroit Symphony Orchestra, you can submit donation online.
The mission of the Discovery Orchestra is "To teach the listening skills that help people really connect with classical music." The Discovery Orchestra's Learn At Home Page is a great place to start
To support The Discovery Orchestra, you can submit a donation online.
Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra
ECSO has transformed its popular Music in the Schools grant-funded program into Music in the Homes, a YouTube series. These videos are a free resource for all to use to ensure that music education stays present in at-home curriculum.
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To support the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, visit their website.
Erie Philharmonic
Educational Resources - The Erie Philharmonic offers an array of educational resources and activities such as Youth Concerts, Peter and the Wolf, Tubby the Tuba, and Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
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To support the Erie Philharmonic, visit their website.
Firelands Symphony Orchestra
We offer educational music videos by Jody Chaffee (League 2018 recipient of the Ford Musician Award for Excellence in Community Service) for playing and practicing as well as DIY make-your-own instruments at home.
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To support the Firelands Symphony Orchestra, visit their website.
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
FWSO Music Lab - FWSO has created The Music Lab to keep the music playing by providing our community an opportunity to uniquely engage with musicians, staff, and sponsors beyond the walls of Bass Hall. The four pillars – listen, learn, share and give – will house weekly content all communities can access to grow musically, discover archived, live, or curated performances and generally connect with other music lovers.
The Learning Lab - FWSO Learning Lab is core to our mission of providing educational content and tools to our schools, students, families and all fans of music! The Learning Lab will provide weekly postings of webinars, downloadable worksheets for kids, and more for the whole family to enjoy the love of learning music!
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To support the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, visit the “Support” section of their website.
Weekly ZOOM rehearsals consisting of: Play-Along, lecture, screen-share, guest speakers, repertoire building, audition technique, and more shared experiences.
Each week enjoy a new experience with like-minded music enthusiasts. Musicians of all sorts (instrumentalists, singers, pedagogues, and passive lovers of music) are welcome to partake and share in the joy of music.
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To support the Global Harmony Symphony, visit their website.
Hartford Symphony Orchestra
HSO To Go - The Hartford Symphony Orchestra's new online home for performances, music education, and other great digital content featuring HSO musicians! Listen to an archival recording of the HSO, learn from a master teacher, and connect with HSO musicians all from the comfort of your own home. HSO to Go will be updated frequently, so be sure to check back often to see what's new!
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To support the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, you can submit a donation online.
The Kennedy Center
Kennedy Center @ Home - Enjoy free videos of extraordinary live and on-demand performances and educational activities to do at home, with new releases daily.
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To support The Kennedy Center, visit their website.
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has committed to reaching its community members through online video performances and educational content. Videos can be found on the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Facebook, and the KSO Youtube Channel.
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To support the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, you can submit a donation online.
La Porte County Symphony Orchestra
Instrument Drive - Conducting an instrument drive for students in need of an instrument but cannot otherwise afford to lease or purchase one.
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To support La Porte County Symphony Orchestra, you can submit a donation online.
Lexington Philharmonic
The Lexington Philharmonic has developed a special portal on our website, titled #LexPhilLivingRoom. This page will include performances videos, educational videos for kids, and messages of hope and healing from our musicians.
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To support the Lexington Philharmonic, you can submit a donation online.
Lima Symphony Orchestra
We have adapted our educational programs to an online format, offering our Family and Young People’s Concerts, Symphony Storytime and Mornings with the Maestro, free. Our new program, Project Noteworthy, is taking place entirely via Zoom. Project Noteworthy engages elementary-age school students in a song-writing process led by award-winning children's author and musician, Mary Amato, to explore and express feelings of isolation and depression experienced by many young people throughout the pandemic.
As the world changes around us, we remain committed to changing with it, including finding new ways to reach audiences and embracing diverse programming that better reflects the world in which we live.
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To support the Lima Symphony Orchestra, please donate through our website.
Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center at Home - Audiences around the globe can visit LincolnCenter.org and now simply and easily add a wealth of arts offerings to their family’s daily calendars. New videos are posted every day. The “On Demand” section offers content available at any time—including links to digital archives, access to remote collections, Q+As with artists, workshops, performances, and more.
Lincoln Center Pop-Up Classroom - Schools may be closed but Lincoln Center Pop-Up Classroom is open. Tune in to facebook.com/LincolnCenterNYC on Facebook Live every weekday at 2pm ET for your daily dose of creativity. This week, families will learn about sculpture, dance, pantomime, and more! For families who can’t watch live, Pop-Up Classrooms are available anytime on our Facebook page as on-demand video.
#ConcertsForKids - For family audiences, we’re teaming up with a remarkable group of artists who will bring world-class performances and diverse musical perspectives straight from their homes to yours. We're excited to share these short performances each Wednesday at 4pm ET and Sunday at 11am ET. All concerts are available after the premiere in the “On Demand” section of our website.
Archival and Livestream Performances - From the archives of Lincoln Center’s resident organizations comes a trove of video, including rarely seen footage from decades of Live From Lincoln Center, more recent performances from across campus, and live streams from wherever performances are still happening – empty halls, living rooms, and more. Visit our website for the schedule.
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To support Lincoln Center at Home, visit their website.
Louisville Orchestra
LO Online - updated regularly with videos, links, and stories to keep the community connected while we have to stay apart.
Our newly launched MakingMUSIC Home Edition - Allows students and families to bring the concert stage to their home with curated content that includes curriculum and activities guides committed to opening minds and hearts to the power of music.
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To support the Louisville Orchestra, visit their website.
Mobile Symphony Orchestra
Programs - For almost two decades, the Mobile Symphony has been offering innovative education programs in schools all over southwest Alabama. Here are just a few of the ways we make a difference: Preludes, general music for K-2 in 6 participating schools; Strings in Schools, string classes for 2-7 grades in 20 participating schools; Young People Concerts; Summer Strings, String Academy, Chamber Strings, Mobile Symphony Youth Orchestra, MSO Ensembles in the schools, free master classes with MSO guest artists, Student Tickets, Big Red Ticket, and much more!
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To support the Mobile Symphony Orchestra, you can submit a donation online.
Monterey Symphony
Welcome to Music to YOUR Ears, Monterey Symphony's new open source virtual education series. Each episode highlights one of the Symphony’s Balcony Sessions that were recorded this past year at MSO’s downtown office in Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Music To YOUR Ears combines the fun animation style of local artist Rory Glass and the artistic excellence of the MSO musicians with the high-quality filming and sound engineering of local documentary filmmaker Douglas Mueller. The videos are narrated by musicologist and MSO Assistant Principal horn player Dr. Alicia Mastromonaco.
Episodes can be viewed online directly or downloaded and shared. All episodes are available with both English and Spanish closed captions. Each episode includes three corresponding worksheets in both English and Spanish that are available to download and print from the website listed above. The Symphony office will also print and mail worksheets to teachers upon request.
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To support Monterey Symphony, you can submit a donation online.
Muncie Symphony Orchestra
For 71 years, the Muncie Symphony Orchestra (MSO) has enriched quality of life in Muncie, Indiana. As an organization that celebrates the cultural vibrancy of East Central Indiana, the MSO presents classical and family pops concerts, chamber concerts, education outreach activities and free community engagement programs to cultivate enduring community partnerships. Home of The Ball Family (Ball canning jars), Paws, Inc. (Garfield the Cat), and Ball State University (notable alumnus, David Letterman), Muncie offers the rich history of a small Midwestern town interwoven with a tapestry of cultural offerings.
Symphony at Home is our webpage that serves as a hub for these online offerings. Select past performances available on our MSO YouTube Channel. Please check out our MSO Facebook page for the newest Symphony Sundays, Musician Moment, and Music Education posts each week.
To support the Muncie Symphony Orchestra, submit a donation online.
Nashville Symphony
The Nashville Symphony is offering regularly-updated at-home music education resources and activities for parents and kids at NashvilleSymphony.org/homeresources, as well as posting daily content to its social media platforms featuring:
Individual and tandem Nashville Symphony musician performances,
Classical music lectures by music director Giancarlo Guerrero,
Archived Nashville Symphony audio and video performances,
Additional at home music education activies including instrument orientations and much more.
To support the Nashville Symphony, visit the “Contribute” section of their website.
New Bedford Symphony Orchestra
Learning Concert Online - A series of short videos that explore symmetry in music and geometry, musical arrays and equations and parallel, oblique and perpendicular lines in math and music.
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To support the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, you can submit a donation online.
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
NJSO at Home brings you some of the best New Jersey Symphony Orchestra content to enjoy in your living room, including musician at home videos, NJSO Couch Concerts, instrument spotlights, Ask a Musician videos, Education & Community Engagement performances, and hours of recordings available for on demand listening pleasure.
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To support the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, you can make a gift online.
New World Symphony
Educational Concerts - For the past 10 years, the Fellows have prepared and performed a series of one-hour concerts for local school children. Preparatory materials are shared with school teachers who bring their students. In the coming weeks, we will make these concerts and preparatory material available free of charge to students and parents in Miami-Dade County and beyond.
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To support the New World Symphony, visit their website.
New York Philharmonic
NY Phil Plays On: Young People’s Concerts Play!
To support the New York Philharmonic, you can submit a donation online.
New York Youth Symphony
New York Youth Symphony, March 27, 2020 - The New York City-based New York Youth Symphony (NYYS) Orchestra, led by Music Director Michael Repper, is made up of young musicians ages 12-22 from throughout the New York region. The orchestra had to cancel its spring concert at Carnegie Hall due to the coronavirus crisis, but in a moving display of hope, community and resilience, 71 members came together virtually from home isolation to perform this uplifting movement from Mahler's Symphony No. 1, “Titan.” The video, which was edited by NYYS violinist Raina Tung (whose 18th birthday is today), is now available to watch and share:
NYYS Orchestra | Michael Repper, Music Director | Mahler: Symphony No. 1, Mvmnt 2
Additional Media - The New York Youth Orchestra is always eager to share the music and voices of its students, staff, and soloists, whether through presenting lectures from the Composition Program's workshop series, Chamber Music Program recordings, student video interviews, or clips of First Music premieres.
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To support the New York Youth Symphony, visit their website.
North Carolina Symphony
Music Education: Anywhere, Anytime! - The North Carolina Symphony's virtual Education Concert and its companion materials support teachers who are engaging their students virtually and parents/guardians who are continuing their children’s education at home. This educational content is available free of charge for students, teachers, parents, and audiences of all ages to access and enjoy across North Carolina and worldwide.
Each week, NCS is also releasing lessons to explore each musical topic covered in the Education Concert in greater depth. Each lesson includes student reading material introducing the music, the corresponding section of the Education Concert video, and curriculum-aligned “classroom” activities tailored for individual, at-home instruction—including background material for the parent/guardian or teacher.
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Digital Broadcast of North Carolina Symphony Education Concert - NCS has released a digital broadcast of a North Carolina Symphony Education Concert and its companion materials to support teachers who are engaging their students virtually and parents who are continuing their children’s education at home. The online content is available free of charge for students, teachers, parents, and audiences of all ages to access and enjoy across North Carolina and worldwide. Password: 1932
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Norwalk Symphony Orchestra
We are proud to announce a new Virtual Content Partnership between the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Stepping Stones Museum for Children, and the Norwalk Public Schools.
Based on the Symphony's (Not) Just for Kids program, we have the opportunity to be a part of the virtual learning platform for grades k-3 throughout the Norwalk school system. These students receive work-packets mailed to their homes, which are supplemented by daily virtual content. The Symphony will provide engaging video content about music and instruments starting with this video and continuing into the summer. Stepping Stones will complement the content with a fun home extension activity related to each week's video! An additional worksheet from the Symphony will reinforce the concepts shared in the video.
Please enjoy this first video where Maestro Jonathan Yates introduces the orchestra, instrument families, and then gives us a conducting lesson! You can also view the weekly e-blast from Stepping Stones and see how we are embedded in their programming.
Please visit our website to find the video and supporting activities!
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To support the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, you can submit a donation online.
Orchestra Iowa
Virtual Music Lessons - Whether you're beginning study, progressing your skills, working to prepare for a college audition, or simply playing for the enjoyment of making music, Orchestra Iowa School can help! Music lessons offer many benefits for people of all skill sets and can be accessed easier now than ever before. With 15 different areas of study, we're confident there is a curriculum for you.
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To support Orchestra Iowa, you can submit a donation online.
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
The OSM offers educational content, including family concert broadcasts with concert guides, playlists, videos, and educational resources and activities.
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To support the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, you can submit a donation online.
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
Virtual Music Lessons - The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra is pleased to announce a new program aiming to continue music education while at home. Virtual Music Lessons will be taught by Philharmonic musicians, with lessons available for all instruments of the orchestra. These one-on-one lessons are available and open to all ages, and for all experience levels- whether you’re just starting your music performance journey, or working on honing the craft.
All of the musician-teachers have years of performance and teaching experience and will be able to provide personalized learning experiences to fit the student’s individual needs.
Sound Bites - A new digital series from the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.
Musician Moments feature Philharmonic Musicians as they sit down with Executive Director Paul Helfrich to discuss orchestral music, their background, and perform some beautiful music.
The OPO Ed videos are supplemental educational videos about the instrument families and ways to keep learning about music while at home.
Additional videos will be added over the coming weeks.
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To support the Orlando Philharmonic, you can submit a donation online.
Palm Beach Symphony
Palm Beach Symphony is hosting a variety of online offerings on its website, including instructional videos by its musicians, links to free music education activities and resources, submissions from symphony patrons, and content from the Sy Music Director Gerard Schwarz's archive.
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To support the Palm Beach Symphony, visit their website.
Peoria Symphony Orchestra
PSOAtHome - Offers links to future and past Facebook live performances by Peoria Symphony Orchestra musicians and guest artists, a video library with both musical and educational content from the PSO, as well as links to other live music and educational resources.
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To support the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, visit the “Support and volunteer” section of their website.
Philadelphia Orchestra
Virtual Philadelphia Orchestra: Learn - Participants of all ages will have the opportunity to learn from, and engage with, musicians of the Orchestra through virtual learning opportunities, including panel discussions, master classes, and more.
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To support Philadelphia Orchestra, visit the “support us” section on their website.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
"Extraordinary Measures” brings together the orchestra’s sound, spirit and passion for with new music, music from the archives and music for educating at home, all presented throughout the orchestra’s digital spaces.
“Bright Spots" are regularly posted morning videos self-produced by the PSO musicians, conductors, and guest artists who play and talk about music that is particularly meaningful to them, from well-known works to rare gems.
Friday Night Concerts is a weekly curated presentation, hosted by Music Director Manfred Honeck, featuring concerts from the archives. Tune in for new insight, bonus footage, post-concert conversation, and new Concert Guides. Concerts currently available include performances of Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 and Mahler Symphony No. 5; the extended version of “Tree of Life: Concert for Peace and Unity” in partnership with WQED; a special preview of our high-definition recording of Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in a special video presentation with art and photography, in honor of Earth Day; and “Alec’s Playlist 2.0” curated by Alec Baldwin.
Educational Offerings are videos and resources from the PSO's Learning & Community Engagement programming: “Make Time for Music with Fiddlesticks!” provides new videos from our musicians and conductors for children ages 3-8 and their families to learn about the instrument families and all of their beautiful sounds. “Practice! Practice! Practice!” has new videos created by PSO musicians and conductors to offer tips and technique for Middle and High School instrumental students.
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To support the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, visit their giving page online.
Portland Symphony Orchestra
PSO: Education Everywhere - A new virtual initiative that makes many of our educational resources available online for parents, teachers, and students everywhere.
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To support the Portland Symphony Orchestra, visit their website.
Princeton Symphony Orchestra
At Home with the PSO - We are with you! Whether you're on your couch, at the kitchen counter, or working remotely, you can experience all the joy, beauty, and music associated with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. We're putting together a collection of performances, a virtual art exhibit, recipes, and more for you and your family's at-home enjoyment.
Virtual Listen Up! Gallery - You can now navigate a digital installation displaying students' creative artwork and written responses to composer Saad Haddad's Clarinet Concerto, written for clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and performed by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in January 2020.
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To support the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, visit their website.
Quad City Symphony Orchestra
QCSO Concert Conversations - Join host Kai Swanson as he chats with Music Director Mark Russell Smith and soloists about upcoming concerts and repertoire. Available on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.
QCSO Because. . . Podcast - Inspired by the children's book Because by Mo Willems, Because . . . is a podcast that explores the people, places, and things that helped us get to where we are today. Join QCSO Principal Horn, Marc Zyla, as he explores these stories with people we admire. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
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To support the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, visit their website.
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Engagement Resources for Children, Families and Educators - The Concert Library has two acclaimed Family Concert videos for on-demand streaming: Race for the Reef and A Nighttime Story, both geared towards children ages 6–12, but enjoyable by people of any age. The live rebroadcast event of Race for the Reef will be augmented with new material and will be accompanied with activities designed to extend and enhance the concert viewing experience. In addition to the live rebroadcast, the SPCO will provide engagement resources for parents, guardians and educators to help spark the imagination and explore even more videos on the Concert Library. These resources will feature listening lessons and supplementary materials for students and children to engage with the music.
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Education and Community Engagement
To support The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, visit their website.
San Diego Symphony Orchestra
At-home music making and learning resources
To support the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, visit the “Support” section on their website.
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra
SYSO Keeps the Music Going - With so many unknowns, we will continue to focus on what we know –and what we do best – in order to provide online opportunities for learning and connecting with one another. Here are some of the ways SYSO keeps the music going in this new virtual environment:
SYSOTalks with JFM: Saturdays at 10 am all 5 orchestras get together via Zoom to discuss music topics such as auditions, memorization, and practice tips. Topics that apply to all musicians.
YSO Wednesday Hangouts: Every Wednesday at 4pm. An online space for Youth Symphony Orchestra members to continue music discussions while staying connected and have a bit of fun.
Weekly Conductor Tips & Emails: Orchestra conductors send weekly emails to their musicians with resources, practice assignments and technique tips.
Check-in Videos: Conductors are receiving 20-60 second videos from students each week and offer feedback.
Mentoring Program: This matches younger SYSO musicians with older students. This program fosters student-to-student mentor relationships, facilitates shared learning, and nurtures relationship-based musical experiences.
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To support the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra, you can submit a donation online.
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
The SLSO's Instrument Playground Online - Offers videos, photos, and activities that introduce the orchestra's musicians and the instruments they play, including demonstration videos.
At-Home Resources - This guide provides musical learning activities for the entire family.
To support the SLSO, visit the “Support” sections of their website.
Symphony of Southeast Texas
LISTEN - Principal players in the orchestra have videoed in their homes demonstrations of their instruments along with brief bios that were uploaded to major school districts in the region. Those districts have made them available through Parent Portals. Reports indicate they have been viewed with enthusiasm. Additionally, our Music Director did a virtual narration of our Youth Education concert that had to be cancelled. He introduces each piece, and follows the teacher's guide we compiled. In lieu of the orchestra playing, we used whatever clips of the repertoire that were available. This will also be sent to schools and is available on our website.
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To support the Symphony of Southeast Texas, visit their website.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
E Learning - This website is intended to highlight our nation’s distinct musical heritage and educate people across Canada, and internationally, through streamed TSO performances, Listening Guides, Study Guides, and other interactive educational resources.
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To support the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, visit their website.
Utah Symphony
Utah Symphony remains committed to safely and creatively uplift and educate using music as an outlet and escape. We continue to create and connect a community of music lovers drawn together in difficult times through the power of music.
Utah Symphony's Education Department has migrated resources online in School from Home to help support teachers, parents and students in our suddenly digital-only learning environment.
Past performances and recordings, and the “Ghost Light Podcast” are available for on demand streaming in the Listening Room.
The Venice Symphony
The Venice Symphony offers a free weekly Education Spotlight video on YouTube with music education activities, demonstrations and lessons for all ages featuring Symphony musicians and educators.
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To support The Venice Symphony, visit their website.
The Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra
Education and Outreach - The Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra has completed the first round of online Virtual Masterclasses and Instrumental Coaching Sessions attended by local and regional student musicians. With schools out of session and orchestra and band ensemble rehearsals impossible due to COVID-19, the Williamsburg Symphony has stepped in to encourage and inspire student musicians from across the region to participate in unique, virtual learning opportunities. With excitement, The WSO announces that this grand effort will continue throughout the summer and into the Fall of 2020.
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To support the Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra, you can submit a donation online.
Youth Symphony of Kansas City
Stream - The mission of the Youth Symphony of Kansas City is to challenge, educate and inspire students through meaningful and enriching musical experiences.
-Youth Symphony of Kansas City
To support the Youth Symphony of Kansas City, you can submit a donation online.