Music In The Middle

Each year, the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra presents a special concert appropriately targeting middle school students. The educational aspect of the program is musical and curriculum-oriented. In preparation for the concert, each seventh grade student receives a study booklet with explanations, games and projects that incorporate the concert theme into the school's curriculum.

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.

Sponsors:

Education Programs sponsored in part by General Dynamics, Jamestown Business Association and United Guaranty. Special thanks for the generous support of the North Carolina General Assembly.