Third Grade Classroom Visits

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.

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To Educate. To Entertain. To Inspire.

The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1956 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and is a professional, regional orchestra whose mission is to educate, entertain, and inspire the citizens of the Fayetteville, North Carolina region as the leading musical resource. Praised for its artistic excellence, the Symphony leads in the cultural and educational landscape for Fayetteville and the southeastern North Carolina region.

The Fayetteville Symphony typically performs 8 concerts during any given season performing both at Methodist University and Fayetteville State University. Partnerships with other agencies include collaborative performances with Cape Fear Regional Theatre, chamber concerts at St. John’s Episcopal Church, as well as the city’s annual Independence concert with fireworks. The Symphony brings music to the schools and the community by performing educational concerts, as well as having its own Fayetteville Symphony Youth Orchestra, after school strings and summer music camps.

This organization is supported in part by a space grant from the BB&T Term Endowment of Cumberland Community Foundation, Inc.