• Link Up in the New York City Area: The Orchestra Rocks

    Students in grades 3–5 discover how composers and musicians play with elements of rhythm, creating patterns of sound and silence that are expressive and exciting. Exploring a range of orchestral repertoire, students sing, play the recorder and/or the violin, compose, and perform in a culminating concert in Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium.

    The Link Up: The Orchestra Rocks application period for 2012–2013 is now closed. Please check back next spring to apply to join us for the 2013–2014 season of Link Up: The Orchestra Sings!

  • Program Features

    • • One interactive concert in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage featuring a professional orchestra, conductor, and Link Up students from the tri-state area
    • • One required teacher professional development workshop per year
    • • The Orchestra Rocks curriculum guide, soprano recorder, CD, and DVD for participating teachers
    • • Bowings for string teachers in each piece of repertoire in the printed curriculum
    • • Soprano recorder and The Orchestra Rocks workbook for each student
    • • Online materials and resources, including Link Up Beginnings skills-focused curriculum and audio for teachers and students
  • 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.