In-Person School and Library Programming 24-25

Field Trips

Multiple field trip options: Field trips include large-scale immersive, interactive concerts, resource guides for the classroom, meet-and-greet time with performers.

• Tiny Tots: Diverse Colorado: In this fun, engaging program, we will use orchestra music to celebrate Colorado’s rich and colorful landscape of cultural diversity. These concerts will feature special guest collaborations and include music from Mariachi, Indigenous American, Classical, Popular, and African traditions, to name just a few! Best for students ages 8 and under. October 2024
• Inside the Orchestra: Music of the World: Students and families will join us on a musical adventure around the world in this engaging, educational program, featuring special guests. Best for students ages K-8. February 2025. ** Bilingual programing (Spanish-English)
  
• Tiny Tots: Animals: In this program, we welcome families into a musical zoo. Children will hear orchestra music inspired by animals and use their imaginations to fly, gallop, and swim along with our orchestra! Best for students ages 8 and under.

Learn more and book a field trip here

Single Educator Sessions

A single musician or music educator will come into your classroom for hands-on sessions. Adaptable to your specific classroom needs, sessions include topics such as:

• Art parties: Students will be guided to create their own art inspired by short performances from a musician. This program is all about expression and creativity.
• Science of Sound: In this program, students will learn what sound is, how sound is created, and the science behind what brings music to our ears. Students will learn how each family of instruments in the orchestra makes their sound and create DIY instruments.
• Instrument Petting Zoo: After a short introduction to each instrument family, students will have time to get hands-on and explore a variety of instruments from around the orchestra.  We can bring our instrument petting zoo to individual classrooms or school wide activity days!
• ** Bilingual programing available (Spanish-English)

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Trio Performances – For Younger Learners

These are 20-25 minute performances, great for kids in 1st grade and younger are designed to get kids moving, listening, dancing, and pretending along with a trio of musicians. Led by a musician who introduces each piece of music, these programs are a great way for kids to experience live music safely and in new and fun ways.

Schools often schedule these performances during classrooms’ regularly scheduled recess times – they offer a great musical break combined with a lot of movement-based activities.

** Bilingual programing available (Spanish-English)

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Quintet Performances – For Kindergarten Through 6th Grade

Students will interact with musicians as they are guided to move and react to the music, answer questions and prompts about what they’re hearing, and think creatively and critically about the composers and the music. There are two program themes available:

• Introduction to the Orchestra – Students will learn about the families of the orchestra, basic music terminology like tempo and dynamics, and even get the chance to become the percussion section at the end of the program.
• Inside the Story: A Surprise for Rabbit – Students will be immersed in a story, complete with narrator and original score performed by five orchestra musicians. Each student will receive a copy of our original Spanish-English bilingual book: A Surprise for Rabbit.

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Immersive Orchestra Assemblies – For Kindergarten through 8th Grade

A 16-piece professional orchestra experience for K-8th grade. In this English-Spanish bilingual program, the audience is seated on the floor and surrounded by professional musicians. The conductor faces the students and engages them throughout the performance, asking questions and teaching them about the music as it is playing around them. Students are treated to up-close-and-personal demos by the strings, woodwinds, horns, and percussion. Scripting is designed to not only introduce musical concepts but to tie to the curriculum that children are studying in other subjects.

The large-scale assemblies have high demand and limited availability each year. Schools are selected based on grant funding and Inside the Orchestra scheduling availability and priority. Contact info@insidetheorchestra.org to be placed on the waitlist for this program.