The Milwaukee Symphony partners with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute to bring the Link Up program to our community. Link Up pairs orchestras across the country with students in grades 3-5 at schools in their local communities to explore orchestra repertoire through a year-long, hands-on music curriculum. Linking your classroom to the concert hall, students will learn to sing and play the soprano recorder while learning basic musical concepts in preparation to perform with the orchestra at the concert.

The Orchestra Moves

March 12, 2025
10:15 am & 12:00 pm | Bradley Symphony Center

March 13, 2025
10:15 am | Bradley Symphony Center

CONCERT DETAILS

Ryan Tani, conductor

Thomas Cabaniss: “Come to Play”
Arturo Márquez: Danzón No. 2
Johann Strauss II: “The Blue Danube”
Georges Bizet: “Toreador” from Carmen
Ludwig van Beethoven: Allegro con brio from Symphony No. 5
Elena Kats-Chernin: “Knitting Nettles” from Wild Swans Suite
Tanyaradzwa A. Tawengwa: “Mhande”
Tali Rubinstein: “Shibolet Basadeh”
Dai Wei: “The Dancing Moonlight”
André Filho: “Cidade Maravilhosa”

By any definition, music moves. As organized sound, music moves through time and space from high to low, creating patterns and motifs. Composers and performers use expressive qualities to move us emotionally. Music also compels us to move physically and is embodied in many kinds of dance. We will discover all the interwoven ways in which the orchestra moves!

The MSO will provide:

• 1 Teacher Guide (distributed at the Professional Development Session)
• Access to digital, interactive Student Guides and online resources, audio and visual, via Carnegie Hall’s website
• Recorders to schools that are unable to provide them. Please email recorder request to hickoxn@mso.org ASAP.

The Teacher will:

• Attend the Professional Development Session this fall. (Nov. 13, 4:30 – 6:00 PM at Elm Creative Arts School)
• Implement the curriculum, tailoring it to suit teacher/student needs.
• Teach and rehearse sung and recorder melodies for students to perform with the MSO at the final concert.
• Attend the Link Up concert with their students. Concert attendance is mandatory for participating teachers.

Learn more about Link up at the Carnegie Hall website. Link Up Resources can be found here

Additional Link Up educational resources

• NEW! Carnegie Hall launched a new kid-friendly website—Carnegie Hall Kids—that invites children ages 5 - 12 to learn about music through highly interactive and fun activities. Carnegie Hall Kids ignites imagination in children, offering activities that both encourage musical curiosity and develop knowledge of musical concepts. This new website includes musical quizzes, robust games, interactive maps, performance videos, and more. Be sure to check out the updated Link Up Orchestra Map, which features excerpts from Link Up works and orchestral standards performed by alumni of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Ensembles. We encourage you to share this resource with your Link Up teachers: https://kids.carnegiehall.org/.
• Many resources are available to you on the Link Up website found at: http://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Link-Up/. To access the materials you will need to set up an account. It is a very simple process to set up an account on the website.
• Finally if you are on Facebook you can join the Carnegie Hall Link Up group to see what your colleagues around the country are doing and share ideas and feedback.

lunch space availability

Please contact the MSO Education Department at 414.226.7886 or email at edu@mso.org for pricing information and further reservation details.