For our 2024-25 season, in collaboration with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, the Anchorage Symphony will continue our participation with Link Up, a music education program, with the Young People’s Concert
“The Orchestra Rocks.”
Two years ago your Anchorage Symphony initiated a new education program called Link-Up, in partnership with the Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute. While very similar to our former Young People’s Concert program created by former Music Director Randy Fleischer, Link Up adds a new element with students preparing during their school music classes to PERFORM with their Anchorage Symphony Orchestra!
For more than 35 years, Link Up has paired orchestras with students in grades 3–5 at schools in their local communities to explore orchestral repertoire and fundamental musical skills, including creative work and composition, through a hands-on music curriculum. Link Up addresses the urgent need for music instruction and resources by providing a free, high-quality, year-long curriculum that teachers can implement, along with classroom materials, online video and audio resources, and the professional development and support necessary to make the program an engaging experience for students. The curricular resources have been digitally enhanced and made available for both in-person and remote teaching settings, to best support educators as they adapt to the extraordinary conditions of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Anchorage Symphony is one of over 100 national and international organizations chosen for this program. Since 2003, Carnegie Hall has partnered with professional, community, and university orchestras across the US and around the world to support their existing education programs and strengthen their partnerships with local schools. Link Up has partnered with sites in the US, as well as in China, Canada, Colombia, Spain, Kenya, New Zealand, Poland, and Japan, to serve approximately 450,000 students and teachers globally.
Visit carnegiehall.org/LinkUp for a complete list of participants and further details.
Learn more about the Link Up Program
Watch an excerpt from the Link Up Orchestra’s 2022 Online Concert of The Orchestra Sings
“I love a rowdy crowd of excited kids. These concerts make big impressions on elementary students and they become life-long patrons.”
“This is my favorite field trip to chaperone. I am so glad our community youth are exposed to these magical concerts. Thank you ASO!”
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The Anchorage Symphony Orchestra is funded, in part, by the Atwood Foundation, Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation, Rasmuson Foundation, The Carr Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Alaska State Council on the Arts, Municipality of Anchorage, Healthy Communities program of The Alaska Community Foundation and through the generosity of many individuals and corporate community leaders.
Lead support for Link Up is provided by Fund II Foundation. Additional funding for Link Up is provided by Linda and Earle S. Altman, The Barker Welfare Foundation, JJR Foundation, and Joan and Sanford I. Weill and the Weill Family 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, in part, by an endowment grant from the Citi Foundation.
Tuesday, March 25th 2025
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Interest Form is Now Available!
With only two performances, reservations will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis.