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Carnegie Hall Link Up: Recommended for Grades 3-5 Melody is one of the universal elements of music and defines the music we know and love. A great melody can express ideas and emotions, help tell a story, and bring people together through song. Composers create melodies through a combination of rhythmic patterns, sweeping contours, and expressive qualities. Your students will actually perform with the BSO in this first ever Baltimore presentation of the Carnegie Hall Link-Up Concert experience, "The Orchestra Sings." For the first time ever, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will partner with Carnegie Hall to present, "Link Up: The Orchestra Sings", an interactive Midweek education concert. Students can attend any of the 4 concerts at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on Wednesday, March 26th, and Thursday, March 27th. As part of the concert experience, students will participate by singing, dancing, and playing recorders. Designed for students at various levels of musical achievement, each teacher can choose their own pathways to engage their students. They will sing along with the orchestra to tunes like "Oye" by Jim Papoulis, and "Come to Play" by Thomas Cabaniss, write their own freedom songs inspired by the traditional tune "We Shall Not be Moved", and play recorder with the orchestra on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" and Dvorak's "New World" Symphony! To learn more about Link Up, visit Carnegie Hall's Link Up: The Orchestra Sings webpage! For teachers interested in attending the Link Up Midweek concert with their students, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will hold a curriculum training session on Thursday, January 9th at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall from 5:30-7:00PM. To register for the training session, click here. Educators will receive physical Link Up: The Orchestra SingsCurriculum guides provided by Carnegie Hall at the session and learn how to prepare their students to successfully participate in the concert experience. Following the session on January 9th, educators are invited to attend the BSO concert "The Planets with Heyward"! Any educator who attends a BSO training session and registers their students for a Midweek concert is also eligible to receive free recorders, supplied by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and made possible by a generous anonymous donor. To inquire about Link Up or about receiving recorders for your school, please contact education@bsomusic.org.