Welcome, teachers!
Join us for Storytellers of the Symphony!
We are excited about the upcoming 2024 Education Concerts on Tuesday, May 7th. We are looking forward to seeing you and your students there.
To reserve your school’s place in this year’s concerts, call the DSO Office at 217-443-5300, hours 1-5 pm weekdays.
This year we are presenting music that tells a story. The following repertoire will be sure to spark the visual imagination of students young and old. Each of the titles below links to YouTube examples of the music. (Teachers, please be advised that YouTube has advertisements. Do review these before showing to students.)
Download the Teacher’s Guide flip books:
Guide to Instruments of the Orchestra
Guide to the Composers and their Music
Click on the links below to listen to the pieces we will be playing for this year’s concert.
John Williams, Star Wars:
Puccini:
William Grant Still:
(Extra listening—Duke Ellington: Take the A Train, Cotton Tail
Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky:
Click the links to instrument demos below: