Concert Curricula
Prepare for your upcoming concert experience, or dig into the archives. Investigate musical terms and become familiar with orchestral instruments while seeing how and why composers communicate through music. Each curriculum features interactive lesson plans in line with Minnesota Department of Education Arts Standards.
Musical Ups and Downs
This program will explore the connection between music and the emotions it evokes from listeners. We will also delve into the lives of the composers and the events going on around them that may have inspired them to compose the music that they did.
The American Symphonic Tapestry
Who and what created the American sound? This concert sheds light on some of the lesser-known composers whose musical contributions led to the creation of a unique American flair. Alongside the well-known George Gershwin, great composers like Florence Price, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds were all quintessential in building what we now recognize as the American orchestral sound.
Orchestra in Orbit
Here, There, Everywhere
Music for a Better World
Students Center Stage
Sounds of the Harvest
Philharmonia Fantastique: Instrument Families
Music Around the Globe
American Riffs
Winter Wonderland
Color of Music
Symphonic Chills and Thrills
Meet the Instruments
American Voices
Musical Menagerie
Inside the Composer's Mind
Science of Sound
