Once every school year, with support from the Yanoff Music Initiative Grant from the Cumberland Community Education Foundation (CCEF), master FSO musicians visit select elementary schools in the Cumberland County Public School System (CCPSS) to give third grade students engaging presentations and informative Q&A sessions supplementing the music teachers’ own work with the FSO/CCPSS pre-approved curriculum guide. All of this is to prepare the students for their upcoming trip to the Symphony. Every November, the FSO will perform a pair of youth concerts for all 4,500+ third grade students in the Cumberland County Public School System. This concert is often the first introduction for these students to a live symphonic concert experience.