As a classroom-based, cross-curricular extension to our Beyond the Notes program, Connecting with Music is a humanities-based, thematic, interdisciplinary learning initiative that utilizes the scaffolding of concert repertoire to explore personal, historical, and cultural connections to symphonic music. At the culmination of the project, students share original works based on a theme. In addition to classroom interaction and mentoring, a string quartet of ASO musicians is visit five partner schools to present a program based on the 2024-2025 Connecting with Music theme, “American Identity.”
ASO Connecting with Music is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov. Additional support has been provided by The James C. Armstrong Young Education Endowment, Women’s Symphony League of Austin, The Georgia B. Lucas Fund of the Austin Community Foundation, Mihaylo Family Fund and PNC Bank Foundation.
For more information about Connecting with Music and/or other ASO Education programs, please contact:
JEREMY BRIMHALL | Director of Education and Community Engagement
Austin Symphony Orchestra | 1113 Red River St., Austin, TX 78701
512.476.6064 x1210 | jbrimhall@austinsymphony.org
