2024-2025 Youth Concert Series
Be sure to explore our curriculum online for each concert, which will help you prepare your students for their concert experience.
We hope you will join us this season at Kleinhans Music Hall!
Erie Canal 200: Low Bridge, Everybody Down
We’re celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal, which played a key role in making New York the “Empire State.” This concert will explore four principal elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony, and timbre. Through music by diverse composers, students will learn how each element is built to create symphonic music, just as the canal created a beautiful community where we all live. As we journey along the Erie Canal, we’ll discover how it shaped the past, and what it means for the future.
Erie Canal 200: A Musical Journey
We’re celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal, which played a key role in making New York the “Empire State.” This concert will explore four principal elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony, and timbre. Students will make connections between the contour and roles of the Erie Canal to the musical contour and roles of instruments in diverse repertoire. As we journey along the Erie Canal, we’ll discover how it shaped the past, and what it means for the future.
Friday Morning Concerts
These full-length (2 hour) BPO concerts on Friday mornings give middle and high school students a chance to hear complete pieces of repertoire in a casual atmosphere.
Accessible Concerts
Developed specifically to enhance the BPO experience for audience members with disabilities, this visual and interactive concert is performed in the Mary Seaton Room at Kleinhans Music Hall to accommodate the flexible seating needed for wheelchairs and the audience to react to the music in any way they feel comfortable.
This online hub of free youth concert content is for use in virtual or in-person classrooms. Explore video resources with accompanying suggested lesson plans under thematic units like Musical Stories, World Dances, American Voices, Art & Music, Celebrating WNY, The Orchestra at Work, Melody & Meaning, BPO Musical Passport, Our Musical Heritage, and Instruments of the World.
The BPO is a proud partner of Erie 1 BOCES Arts in Education and Exploratory Enrichment programs. For more information please click here.