Our 4th graders had a blast participating in the LINK UP concert at the Frauenthal Theatre in downtown Muskegon today. The 1726 seat theatre was filled to capacity at three back-to-back concerts featuring more than 4600 fourth graders from area schools!
This is the 13th year that the West Michigan Symphony has partnered with Carnegie Hall and the Weill Institute of Music in New York to provide the LINK UP program and its curriculums to area fourth graders. This year 54 area school districts in six counties were part of the fun! Our fourth graders work from the beginning of the year learning notes, rhythms, singing, and how to play the recorder. The culminating performance in the spring has the students actively engaging throughout the concert by moving, singing and playing along with the symphony! For some students, this is their first symphony concert experience and provides them with the opportunity to apply the musical concepts they have studied yearlong at the LINK UP concert.
Here are some of our 4th graders excitedly waiting for the concert to start!
This is the 13th year that the West Michigan Symphony has partnered with Carnegie Hall and the Weill Institute of Music in New York to provide the LINK UP program and its curriculums to area fourth graders. This year 54 area school districts in six counties were part of the fun! Our fourth graders work from the beginning of the year learning notes, rhythms, singing, and how to play the recorder. The culminating performance in the spring has the students actively engaging throughout the concert by moving, singing and playing along with the symphony! For some students, this is their first symphony concert experience and provides them with the opportunity to apply the musical concepts they have studied yearlong at the LINK UP concert.
Here are some of our 4th graders excitedly waiting for the concert to start!
The theme of the concert this year was the Orchestra Moves. Students learned about the different ways music moves through instruments, notes, dynamics and rhythm. Songs included dance pieces like "The Can-Can" and a Brazilian song called "Cidade Maravilhousa." We all learned to sing Johann Strauss's "Blue Danube" while a ballerina dancer moved on stage. The finale was "Stars and Stripes Forever" by Sousa. The theatre was transformed into stars with striped walls complete with a confetti filled ending!!
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