Symphony of the Hills Adventures In Music
(formerly Children’s Outreach)

As part of our mission of “expanding music appreciation and developing the musical talents of young people,” the Symphony of the Hills is proud to offer Adventures In Music–our Children’s Outreach to area schools.

Every season, approximately 1,700 area students receive in-school presentations at Center Point, Ingram, Hunt, four KISD elementary schools, Covenant Academy, Harper Elementary, Fredericksburg Middle School, and St. Mary’s Elementary School in Fredericksburg. A TEKS-certified lesson plan is distributed to teachers 30 days prior to the Children’s Concerts, in which music teachers are given the tools to teach students about the pieces to be performed, their composers, the era and country in which the music was written, as well as the emotion and storytelling behind those pieces.

Presenters are members of our Symphony of the Hills orchestra and accomplished musicians and teachers.

They engage students with an interactive, vibrant in-school presentation. This program not only reinforces the music content of the Children’s Concerts (which includes selections from the evening’s concert) but also gives the students a familiarity with the instruments they see in the orchestra, experience with the power of musical storytelling, and encouragement to pursue their own talents through hard work and higher education. Preparing the students for the Children’s Concerts leads to enhanced enjoyment of classical symphony music and fosters an interest in learning to play a musical instrument in the school band and/or orchestra program.

Photography by Jenny Mitchell

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