Support

Supported by the
Francis J. Sheridan Fund

Preludes has received support from the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the J & E Berkley Foundation, and from generous contributors to the symphony.



Education

Preludes

Every year the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra reaches hundreds of students from grades K-12 through its Preludes outreach program. Preludes takes members of the symphony into classrooms in Charlottesville, Albemarle, and surrounding areas, offering a variety of musical programs. Participating members include the professional principal musicians, who are faculty in the McIntire Department of Music, as well as many of the orchestra's student and community musicians.

In Preludes, children become acquainted with the names and characteristics of the orchestral instruments; the sounds that instruments produce; which instruments are similar and how they are different. Students also learn how music is used as a language and a means of expression. Older students are often coached on their own instruments in master classes or group tutorial settings. Programs are tailored to the needs of individual schools, so that the experience is relevant to the school program and the students' education.

The Symphony created Preludes in 2000 to provide programs that introduce youth to the instruments of the orchestra and bring innovation to traditional classroom studies. A teacher at Cunningham Elementary School called the program "very informative, age appropriate, and creative. As a teacher, I would give them an A-plus." A Cale Elementary School student said of one visit, "I didn't like the music you played, because I LOVED it."

For further information about our outreach programs, please contact Ibby Roberts, Outreach Coordinator, at ear4x@virginia.edu

 

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