Education Concerts
Introduce your students to their SLSO! Perfect for elementary and middle school students, these 45-minute concerts align with both Missouri and Illinois learning standards and are designed to spark student imagination and inspire a lifelong love of music. Free companion Teacher Guides are available for each concert.
Education Concerts are inclusive of students with sensory differences. Accommodations will be provided so that all students may enjoy the experience of live orchestral music. Learn more about the available accommodations and access an Experience Guide to prepare your students on the Planning Your Field Trip page.
Dance Party!
Created in partnership with Ballet 314.
What happens when the latest dance craze meets the orchestra? A giant dance party with your SLSO! You and your students won’t be able to keep still as you hear and move to some of the greatest orchestral music of all time. Dancers from Ballet 314 will take you on an exploration of different dance genres, choreographed to classical favorites like Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite, Aaron Copland’s Variations on a Shaker Melody, Georges Bizet’s “Habanera” from Carmen Suite No. 2, and more.
Dance Party! Tickets
Tue, Feb 4, 9:30am & 11:00am
Wed, Feb 5, 9:30am* & 11:00am
These performances take place at Lindenwood University’s J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts
*There are many tickets available for the 9:30am concert on Wednesday, February 5. Financial assistance is available for those who qualify. Small quantities of tickets are available for all other performances. Please contact educationtickets@slso.org for questions.
Link Up: The Orchestra Sings
Wed, Mar 5, 9:30am & 11:00am
Thur, Mar 6, 9:30am & 11:00am
Registration for Link Up is now closed. To inquire about tickets, email education@slso.org.
These performances take place at Touhill Performing Arts Center at UMSL.
Discover all the ways that the orchestra sings! Through engaging repertoire and hands-on activities, Link Up prepares students in grades 3-5 to sing, dance, and play recorders or string instruments culminating in a celebratory concert with the SLSO.
This is a national program of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute.
Deadline to register was Fri, Oct 4.
Ticket Details
Ticketing Information
All Education Concert tickets are $5 each. Teachers will receive one complimentary chaperone ticket per ten student tickets. Invoices are mailed after online orders have been received and processed. Payment is due 30 days prior to the concert(s) and can be made by credit card, check, or cash. No purchase orders, please. Your ticket will be emailed after payment is received. Cancellations or exchanges can be made in advance of payment.
Subsidized Tickets and Transportation Assistance
Subsidized tickets and transportation are available for qualifying schools on a first-come, first-served basis. When completing the ticket order form, please complete the financial assistance section. Schools must have a free and reduced lunch rate of 50% or greater to qualify.
New Teacher Workshop
Embracing Neurodiversity: A Sensory Perspective in the Classroom and Concert Hall
Created in partnership with Children’s Illinois, BJC HealthCare.
Wondering how to prepare and support your neurodivergent students during their field trip experience? Join us for a teacher workshop where, with the help of occupational therapist Monica Carlson from BJC HealthCare, we’ll explore how to navigate the concert hall and the music classroom alongside students with different sensory needs.
Behind the Scenes of an SLSO Education Concert
Need Assistance?
For ticketing assistance, please call 314-534-1700 or email educationtickets@slso.org.
For questions regarding the program or curriculum, please email education@slso.org.
Planning Your Field Trip
We want to make your Education Concert experience hassle-free. Find more information that will give an overview of your field trip to the SLSO.
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