Children's Concert
Every year, our orchestra presents a lively and exciting program to introduce orchestral music to a new generation. Kids (and the people who bring them!) will learn a little about the instruments being played and hear how enriching live music is.
Previous concerts have included an Italian Folk Festival (2025) and Peter and the Wolf (2024).
Join our newsletter to hear about the 2026 Children's Concert in our 12th Season.
If your youth is ready to join in the fun, some of our musicians offer lessons.
Kids love great music! Introduce yours to the orchestra and great composers:
The Composer is Dead, Lemony Snicket
A funny and slightly-macabre exploration of the orchestra in book, live performance, and recorded formats. Parents need to know that this introduction to the orchestra is presented as a murder mystery. Readers ready for tongue-in-cheek, and slightly macabre, humor will be ready for it. Also, it comes with a CD of the author reading against the backdrop of newly composed music played by the San Francisco Symphony. -Common Sense Media
Purchase book from Amazon and support ECHO. Houston Public Library also carries it.
Classical Kids Music Education
Theatrical productions of engaging stories about our most famous composers. Engaging with music, sound-effects, and characters, these recordings bring famous pieces of music alive.
Purchase recordings from Amazon and support ECHO. Houston Public Library also carries it.
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts
Wonderful recording of humor in classical music explained respectfully to his young audience by the master. As a bonus, expansive use of language and an exploration of what makes humor funny.