Amarillo Symphony Kids 2017 Presents Carnegie Hall Link Up: The Orchestra Moves

The Amarillo Symphony invites all local press and media entities to attend Symphony Kids, January 12, 2017 at the Amarillo Civic Center Auditorium.

Led by Jacomo Bairos, the full membership of the Amarillo Symphony is pleased to present Carnegie Hall's Link Up: The Orchestra Moves, an educational concert experience designed for students in grades 3-5.

By any definition, music moves. Sometimes music might create a sense of physical movement as sounds become heavier or lighter, rise up or tumble down. When an orchestra plays, more than one kind of movement may be noticed - sounds can be heard moving as the musicians change their pitches, rhythms, and dynamics; and, one can see the musicians' bodies move as they play. In this informative, motif-based program, students explore how melody, rhythm, and harmony all change, shift, and develop. Through the Link Up repertoire and the culminating interactive performance, students will discover how the orchestra moves. Repertoire highlights include Strauss's The Blue Danube, Mendelssohn's Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Mvt. 1, and Mozart's Overture to The Marriage of Figaro.

Performances for the January 12, 2017 concerts begin at 9:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. at the Amarillo Civic Center Auditorium.

For more information about Symphony Kids, please visit AmarilloSymphony.org.

About the Amarillo Symphony

Founded in 1924, the mission of the Amarillo Symphony (www.amarillosymphony.org) is to infuse the Amarillo community with an unbridled enthusiasm for the performance and discovery of great orchestral music. The Amarillo Symphony is the only professional orchestra in the Texas Panhandle and offers an array of successful youth educational programs in addition to regularly scheduled concerts.

The 2016 - 2017 season is sponsored in part by the Texas Commission on the Arts. Learn more about the Amarillo Symphony at www.amarillosymphony.org.

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