StoryPalooza
Camp Date: 04-June-2012 StoryPalooza is storytelling in an innovative style. This summer camp will be all about developing productions from story ideas generated from our students and cra..
Summer Piano Camp
Camp Date: 16-July-2012 This Summer, the ASO Conservatory of Music is offering a little something extra for the piano students of Acadiana! We are offering Piano Camps for students of various..
Expedition Acadiana
Camp Date: 23-July-2012 This is truly a Summer Experience like NO OTHER! Summer Campers will get the chance to visit some of Acadiana’s most exciting and interesting places –..
Visual Arts Camp
Camp Date: 30-July-2012 Join Ms. Bonnie Camos for a week exploring printmaking, clock making, collage, acrylic painting, an more! Every day, students will be working on a new project! ..
Link-Up
In collaboration with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute (WMI), and with the help of sponsors, Kraft & Gatz, AT&T, Fugro Chance, The Moody Foundation, Atmos Energy, New Life Foundation, the ASO Conservatory is providing premium music curriculum free of charge to approximately 2500 Acadiana students. WMI’s Link Up program pairs orchestras across the country, with schools in their local communities, inviting them to learn about orchestral repertoire through a year-long hands-on music curriculum. With the support of their principals, the teachers in the Acadian community have guided students in exploring music through a composer’s lense, with students participating in active music making in the classroom, performing repertoire on recorder, violin, voice or body percussion and taking part in creative work such as composing their own pieces inspired by the orchestral music they have studied.
21 schools have successfully implemented the Link Up curriculum during the 2011-2012 school year. Teacher workshops conducted by the ASO Conservatory of Music kicked of the program early this fall. Musicians from the ASO have made and are continuing to make in-school visits during February to build enthusiasm and begin to develop mentoring relationships with participating students. The culmination of the yearlong program is a mass “play-in” in which students will sing and play recorder or violin along with the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra in a performance of “The Orchestra Sings.”
Participating Schools
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Link Up Teacher Letter (224 KB)
LINK UP ASO GMA INVITATION (5294 KB)
LINK UP ACCOMPANIMENT FILES (1025 KB)
Students sing and play 6 different songs in the Link Up curriculum.
Photos by Danny Izzo, Nouveau Photeau
ASO musicians and staff visited Ernest Gallet, Woodvale, Charles Burke Elementary, Youngsville Middle, Broadmoor, Sts. Leo-Seton Catholic School, Pope John Paul the Great, and the Boys and Girls Clubs - Granberry and Jackie Units.
Thank you to all of the sponsors, teachers, performers and students that have made this event possible. Tickets are available to the public. Friday, March 2, 2012 7:00 pm. Buy yours now! Link Up
