Your students can perform together with the Fairfax Symphony!

In partnership with Carnegie Hall, the Fairfax Symphony is pleased to offer our innovative music learning program, “Link Up: The Orchestra Moves.” 

By any definition, music moves. As organized sound, music moves through time and space from high to low, creating patterns and motifs. Composers and performers use expressive qualities to move us emotionally. Music also compels us to move physically and is embodied in many kinds of dance. Using Orff Schulwerk strategies and complementary creative movement activities, we will discover all the interwoven ways in which the orchestra moves.

Explore Meter in Music and Movement -- How is meter embodied in music and movement?

Explore Patterns and Motifs in Music and Movement -- How can the development of patterns and motifs create movement in music and dance?

Explore Expressive Qualities in Music and Movement -- How can we use expressive qualities in music and movement to communicate feelings and emotions?

Explore Dance Forms -- Discover how movement is embodied in dance forms from different cultures and traditions.

The Link Up Moves repertoire:

• Thomas Cabaniss: “Come To Play”
• Johann Strauss II: The Blue Danube
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Allegro con brio from Symphony No. 5
• Tanyaradzwa A. Tawengwa: “Mhande”
• Dai Wei: "The Dancing Moonlight"
• Arturo Márquez: Danzón No. 2
• Georges Bizet: “Toreador” from Carmen
• Elena Kats-Chernin: “Knitting Nettles” from Wild Swans Suite
• Tali Rubenstein: “Shibolet Basadeh”
• André Filho: Cidade Maravilhosa

Teacher and student guides are provided, with customized Lesson Plans for teaching the curriculum. Through active listening, analyzing the music, and a focus on the expressive quality of the music, students will put these core capacities to use in a new domain. Link Up is an evidenced-based music learning program developed by the Weill Institute of Carnegie Hall, with curriculum supporting national CORE and Virginia Standards of Learning. The program is ready to implement and flexible, with teachers able to incorporate the Link Up curriculum and engaging lessons into their classroom to support their students' learning goals.

Link Up connects the classroom to the concert hall to enhance student's skills including:

• Literacy
• Math
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Creativity
• Confidence