Educational Programs

The Greensboro Symphony Orchestra's Symphonies for Youth program offers several in-school presentations for children in Alamance, Cabarrus, Guilford, Randolph and Rockingham counties. The Greensboro Symphony reaches more than 50,000 children each year.

The Greensboro Symphony Orchestra’s Symphonies for Youth program offers several in-school presentations for children in Alamance, Guilford, Randolph and Rockingham counties. The Greensboro Symphony reaches more than 50,000 children each year with these valuable education programs.

In this year’s Music in the Middle, we celebrate living composers: people who are writing music for the symphony, and making a living doing it.

Symphonic music is everywhere today, on television, radio, movies, video games, as well as in live performances in a concert hall. In many of those places, we are so used to hearing it that we sometimes don’t even notice that it’s there.

The Music in the Middle concert will call attention to some of this fantastic and dramatic music for the symphony that all too often slips by, even though it makes television, movies, plays, and video games a thousand times better than they would be without it. We will also visit some of the unusual inspirations for concert music, including comic books, art, and even a morning jog in a park.

For this year’s Elementary Concerts, we will focus on the works of Beethoven. This remarkable composer wrote music in the most difficult of circumstances, including poverty and deafness.