Outreach programs
The Evanston Symphony Orchestra has a clear mission – to provide quality, diverse, enjoyable and accessible classical musical entertainment that enriches the audience, orchestra and community. Our concerts include a diverse musical repertoire, bringing familiar favorites as well as lesser known classical masterpieces and new works to music lovers.
We present Musical Insights, special pre-concert programs, on Friday afternoons before each concert in our subscription series to increase people’s knowledge about composers and their works that we are performing. And you can read or download Program Notes before each concert.
To reach new audiences, we take music out into the community and bring more people to our concerts, focusing on preschoolers, tweens and seniors:
- Music In Your World introduces 3-5 year old children from low-income households to sounds and rhythms in a hands-on participative program designed just for them
- Play me A Picture, Paint Me A Tune stretches middle school students’ understanding and awareness of music, its expressive power and its relationship to other arts disciplines
- Cabs For Seniors enables older adults living in qualified senior housing who lack readily accessible transportation to attend our concerts.