Concerts for Young People
Link up with your New Jersey Symphony!
These popular Link Up concerts are a hit year after year with students and teachers alike, sparking imaginations with music that is sure to excite. Seats are filling quickly. Reserve today!
Cost: $8 per patron. For more information, please call 973.735.1733 or email education@njsymphony.org.
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Link Up: The Orchestra Swings
Concerts for Young People
Students will discover the elements that contribute to that magical moment when the orchestra starts to swing! Through this interactive performance, we will explore the many meanings of swing - a distinctive rhythmic feel; a musical era dominated by big band jazz; a style of dance that grew alongside the music; and that elusive but unmistakable feeling that results when musicians are deeply tuned into each other and playing in sync.
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What is Link Up?
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For more than 30 years, Link Up—a program of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute (WMI)—has paired orchestras with students in their local communities to explore orchestral repertoire and fundamental musical skills, including creative work and composition, through a hands-on music curriculum. Students participating in Link Up attend a culminating concert where they sing or play the recorder or violin with the orchestra from their seats.
Link Up provides a free, high-quality, yearlong curriculum that teachers can implement, along with classroom materials, online video and audio resources, and the professional development and support necessary to make the program an engaging experience for students.
This is a national program of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute.
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Sponsors make this program possible. Thank you!
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- Marjorie Bunnell Charitable Fund
- Merck Foundation
- New Jersey State Council on the Arts
- Turrell Fund
- Victoria Foundation
This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.