2020/21 Meet the Music (all-digital season)

If you’re an educator who would like your students to participate in this season’s digital Meet the Music program, please fill out this Google Form to receive updates about Meet the Music. Please note MTM will be starting in Spring 2021 (dates TBD).

An on-demand broadcast of a previously recorded Meet the Music concert from fall 2019 is available! Click here to watch the performance!

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is excited to announce a new era for Meet the Music in collaboration with our Artistic Advisor and composer, Derrick Spiva Jr.

Presented free-of-charge to public elementary students in grades four through six across Los Angeles county, Meet the Music fosters listening skills, encourages collaborative involvement and sparks creative innovation through a digital curriculum and Zoom classroom visits from LACO’s Composer Teaching Artist Fellows. This enriching music program culminates in an interactive, discussion-based virtual concert featuring our own musicians and artists.

Through this redesigned educational outlook, we aim to further specialize MTM in order to better meet the ever-evolving needs of our students in times of COVID-19 and beyond. We are excited to have you and your students join us for this reinvigorated season of artistic education!

Derrick Spiva Jr
LACO Artistic Advisor + Composer Derrick Spiva Jr

Frequently Asked Questions

Thank you for your interest in our program; we are excited to have you join us! You may apply by filling out our online Google Form.

Absolutely! We will provide a supplementary digital lesson plan and a Zoom classroom visit that can help prepare your students for the concert.

Although Meet the Music is primarily open to schools in LAUSD, due to the digital nature of MTM this year, LACO is also opening up participation to any and all West Coast schools. Please contact Taylor Lockwood directly to discuss other options and alternatives.

Meet the Music will be all-digital for the 2020/21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Under normal circumstances, yes! LACO can help subsidize transportation on a need-basis.

Certainly! Please note that there will be two unique MTM broadcasts this season, and your school may participate in both livestream events.

MTM’s curriculum is designed to be supplementary to your existing classroom work. Prior to the concert livestream, LACO offers an additional online lesson with a teaching artist to engage your students in a lesson about composition and music theory. We will also provide optional sample lesson plans and other educational guidelines that you may choose to use. Remember that we are here to help you! Feel free to contact Taylor Lockwood directly if you have any questions regarding the curriculum preparation.

The “Classroom Composers Project” is an initiative geared to connect students with composers. This project will involve an additional online classroom visit from one of our Composer Teaching Artist Fellows who will engage with your students in an immersive and creative process that will culminate in a creation of a mini-composition, to be featured at the MTM concert they attend. Participation in this part of the program is optional.

In accordance with state standards, MTM aims to cover the areas of developing music literacy outlined in the California Arts Standards for Music adopted in January 2019:

          Discovering the expressive elements of music

          Understanding the basic concepts of music

          Knowing the terminology that is used to comprehend music

          Developing the skills necessary to produce music

          Being able to reflect, critique, and connect personal experience to music

Please visit our Opportunities page or email Taylor Lockwood for more information about Meet the Music docents.

Please contact Taylor Lockwood with all questions regarding Meet the Music.

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