For Grades 1–12 (weekday mornings)

Each season more than 20,000 students from over 150 schools and groups from Southeast Indiana, Northern Kentucky and Southwest Ohio attend the CSO's Young People's Concerts in Music Hall.

To help introduce students to orchestral music and the experience of live performance, participating teachers receive stimulating preparatory materials, including Teacher’s Guides for grades 1-4 and 5-8 with a CD of music to be performed. These materials, created in part by the CSO’s Advisory Committee for Education (ACE), enable teachers to make the most of their students’ concert-going experience.

For information about the Young People's Concerts and the Teacher's Guides, please call 513.621.1919. Or complete our reservation form now (Adobe PDF format; download Adobe PDF).

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2008–2009 YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS

Sounds & Stories featuring Peter & the Wolf
Grades 1-4, Concert 1 (approx. 40 minutes)
Wednesday, November 12 at 10:15 AM
Wednesday, December 3 at 10:15 AM

Join the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Conductor Vince Lee as they explore with your students how music guides our imaginations to tell wonderful stories. Back by popular demand is Prokofiev’s classic children’s story Peter and the Wolf.

Teachers Guide  |  General Information

A Family of Strings; A World of Music
Grades 1-4, Concert 2 (approx. 40 minutes)
Wednesday, February 18 at 10:15 AM
Tuesday, March 10 at 10:15 AM

Stringed instruments are popular around the world and with all ages. CSO Assistant Conductor Vince Lee and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra show off the string family with familiar works by Mozart and Tchaikovsky as well as some good ol’ fiddling around!

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From Opera to Broadway: Romeo & Juliet
Grades 5-8, Concert 1 (approx. 50 minutes)
Tuesday, December 2 at 10:15 AM
Tuesday, December 16 at 10:15 AM

Great literature has long been a source of great musical inspiration and no source has inspired more great music than the immortal plays of William Shakespeare. Led by Assistant Conductor Vince Lee, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will be joined by singers from Cincinnati Opera to explore the influence of one of Shakespeare’s most universally appealing tales in the music of Gounod, Prokofiev and Bernstein.

Teachers Guide  |  General Information

An American Mosaic
Grades 5-8, Concert 2 (approx. 50 minutes)
Wednesday, February 25 at 10:15 AM
Thursday, February 26 at 10:15 AM

Music in America has been shaped by the rich cultural diversity of her people. Join Assistant Conductor Vince Lee and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as they explore the impact of jazz, popular song, folk tunes and hymns on orchestral music in America.

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CSO/CSYO Joint Concert
Grades 4-12 (1 hour)
Wednesday, April 15 at 10:15 AM

Each season the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra combines forces with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to perform an exciting joint concert. Little can be more inspiring than the spectacle of over 200 musicians on stage playing some of the world’s finest music together under the direction of CSO Assistant Conductor Ken Lam and Music Director Paavo Järvi.
A special feature of the concert will be the performance by the winner of the annual CSYO Concerto Competition of movements from the solo concerto repertoire. Audience members are given the rare opportunity to see and hear their peers performing next to professional musicians and as soloists with the CSO.
The Joint Concert is a truly exciting event and is recommended for students in grades 4-12.

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Please see the CSO Group Sales page for a complete listing of specially priced Friday morning matinee opportunities High School groups.

You may also call the Group Sales Hotline at 513-744-3590.

DATES/TIMES/THEMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE

CSO MUSICIAN VISITS
Want to hear some terrific LIVE classical music in YOUR CLASSROOM? How would your students like to meet and chat with a musician of the CSO “up close and personal”? Teachers making reservations for Young People’s Concerts are eligible to request these special in-school visits. The programs are related to the concert experience and are intended for students who will attend or have attended the Young People’s Concert during the season.

The cost is $50.00/visit with purchase of Young People’s Concert tickets ONLY; additional costs up to $550.00 WITHOUT CONCERT PURCHASE. Availability is limited.

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