Intermediate Grade Concerts

Each year the RPO offers performances for 15,000 4th-6th graders at the Eastman Theatre. Students are bused in from all over the Greater Rochester Area to enjoy a one-hour, age-appropriate concert designed to connect orchestral music to the intermediate curriculum. In this way, children learn about music in a cultural and historical context. A committee of teachers develops the RPO's curriculum guides that are distributed to all participants.

This season’s program will feature Lemony Snicket’s The Composer is Dead, based on the popular Lemony Snicket children’s book series, A Series of Unfortunate Events.  In The Composer is Dead, writer Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) and composer Nathaniel Stookey team up to lead young audiences on an investigative stroll through the ranks of the orchestral instruments.

 The Intermediate Grade concerts are sponsored by The Cornell-Weinstein Foundation, M&T Bank, and the Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson Foundation.

Jeffery McGhee, narrator

Concert Repertoire

KABALEVSKY:  The Comedians: Galop                    

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3, 2nd movement         

STRAVINSKY:  The Rite of Spring

SCHUBERT:  Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished,” 1st movement

BERLIOZ:  Symphonie fantastique, 5th movement

STOOKEY: The Composer is Dead

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Snow Maiden: Dance of the Tumblers

Files to Download:

Intermediate Reservation Form and informational letter (90 KB). This is a PDF format file. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader^TM to view these files.

Intermediate Listening Lessons: View lesson plans for the individual pieces on the program as well as additional preparatory materials.

Past Listening Lessons: View lesson plans for the individual pieces on previous concert programs as well as composer biographies and additional preparatory materials.