• Link Up for Partner Orchestras

    Join a growing number of Link Up partner orchestras across the country and around the world and watch as your orchestra's education program grows alongside ours. Partners can utilize any of the program materials—including teacher guides, student materials, concert scripts, and concert visuals—in their own communities free of charge to engage local students and teachers in musical learning and exploration.

    During the 2013–2014 season, the program will be shared with more than 50 partner orchestras from Alaska to Florida, as well as in Canada, Spain, and Japan.

  • The Details

    Carnegie Hall provides the following at no cost:

    • • a Link Up curriculum guide for each teacher (featuring lessons on singing, playing the soprano recorder or violin, reading and notating music, and composing and improvising music) 
    • • a CD and DVD resources that accompany the curriculum 
    • • a Link Up workbook for each student 
    • • a professional development webinar for lead teachers and orchestra administrators 
    • • a concert repertoire list, concert script, and accompanying concert visuals 
    • • access to Carnegie Hall's Digital Library with additional lessons and resources, including Link Up Beginnings, a skills-focused curriculum with audio for teachers and students 
    • • ongoing support and consultation regarding professional development for teachers, program implementation, and media/publicity planning

    Your site provides/arranges the following:

    • • a culminating interactive concert(s) featuring an orchestra, conductor, and participating Link Up students 
    • • a Link Up teacher professional development workshop(s) and direct support for participating local teachers 
    • • soprano recorders for all participants, as needed 
    • • program-related needs, both artistic and administrative 
    • • recruitment of participating teachers and students from local public and/or private schools 
    • • ongoing communication with Carnegie Hall regarding program implementation
  • Link Up Resources
    The Orchestra Rocks
    A concert repertoire curriculum guide that includes lesson plans, accompanying audio, student workbook pages, and basic assessment tools.
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    The Orchestra Sings
    This concert repertoire curriculum guide is intended for classrooms. Resources include lesson plans, audio, student workbooks, and basic assessment tools.
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    The Orchestra Moves
    This curriculum explores how composers create musical movement using motifs, melodic direction, steps and leaps, dynamics, and orchestration.
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    Beginnings
    This curriculum is a general music literacy resource introducing students to the orchestra, music notation, and recorder skills. Includes audio.
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  • Lead Funding for Link Up is provided by the Robertson Foundation.

    Major support for Link Up has been provided by The Irene Diamond Fund, with additional funding from The Ambrose Monell Foundation, Wells Fargo, the Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust, and The Barker Welfare Foundation.

    Link Up in New York City schools is made possible, in part, by an endowment gift from The Irene Diamond Fund.

    The Weill Music Institute's programs are made available to a nationwide audience by an endowment grant from the Citi Foundation.

  • Partner Orchestras

  • Contact Information

    Phil Bravo 
    Manager of Educational Partnerships
    pbravo@carnegiehall.org