Educational Programs

Greensboro Symphony Orchestral Concerts:
Music in the Middle

As a continuation of the overall curricular cycle, the orchestra presents annual concerts designed especially for middle school students. Titled “Music in the Middle,” these exciting concerts often serve to broaden students’ perceptions of the orchestra. Last year’s theme of “Alive and Well” featured an entire program of works by living composers.

This year’s theme for Music in the Middle is “Six Degrees of the Symphony.” In this concert, the Symphony will demonstrate many styles of orchestral music. The program showcases opera, ballet, Romantic symphonies, film music, popular music, and concerto repertoire. Composers for the 2006 program include Stravinsky, Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and John Williams. Students and teachers participating in this program are also supplied with classroom materials and curricular resources to prepare students for the concert.