Elementary School Concerts
Every year, all third and fourth grade students in the Piedmont region hear a dynamic program by the full Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. The Elementary School Concerts present exciting works of orchestral music. The Elementary School Concerts serve students from the Guilford, Alamance-Burlington, Asheboro, Randolph, Reidsville, and Caswell County school systems.
These concerts frequently include multimedia presentations and collaborations with the Greensboro Ballet. In addition to the concert experience, students and teachers receive educational resources and curricular materials that support the concert theme. These materials help introduce new music to students as well as connect the concert theme to topics across the curriculum.
The 2012 concert theme will be “Storytelling and Music.” The music will include Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, and music from the movie Harry Potter.
Past programs have presented:
Dancing with the Ballets Russes - Russian and French music for ballet
Happy Birthday Greensboro / A Piedmont Celebration - in honor of Greensboro’s Bicentennial, a program telling stories of the region’s history through the music of American composers.
Carnival of the Animals - Saint-Saens’ classic work.
African and Hispanic Influences: A Musical Melting Pot - Folktales and the Rhythms of Life
Podcasts by Canterbury School 3rd Grade Students during the 2010-11 season.
Mara Barker, music teacher
Group 1
Private, parochial, and homeschooled groups are also invited - contact the Greensboro Symphony for information at
336-335-5456 x 230.