APS Fifth-Graders Play with the Akron Symphony Orchestra

Holding their recorders and walking single file with teachers and chaperones, more than 1,800 Akron Public Schools fifth-graders — nearly 3,000 students in total including other area schools — invaded downtown last Wednesday outside of the Akron Civic Theatre. 

The kids were there to participate in “The Orchestra Swings,” two concerts with the Akron Symphony Orchestra funded by the Link Up program through Carnegie Hall. Schools opted in to introduce third- through fifth-graders to orchestral music. Nearly 3,000 students performed. Read more of the story here >>.