Today, the Toledo Symphony announced a special collaboration with Imagination Station to celebrate Music In Our Schools Month. Throughout the month of March, various groups of Toledo Symphony musicians, faculty members, and students will present free activities at Imagination Station. 

“There is so much overlap between music and science,” says Rachel Schultz, Director of Education & Community Engagement for TAPA. “What excites me the most about this partnership is the curiosity that is cultivated at Imagination Station. Sometimes young musicians can get rigid and forget that a part of finding your musical voice is experimenting!” 

“When you listen to music, you don’t think about theory and formulas, you only hear the song,” says Carl Nelson, Chief Scientist at Imagination Station. “The cool part is how much science does play into creating beautiful music. We are so excited to partner with the Toledo Symphony to take a new scientific and fun look at music.” 

The partnership between TAPA and the Imagination Station this month includes performances and demonstrations by a variety of groups.  

• MARCH 5 – Members of the Toledo Symphony Youth Ensemble (TSYE) and Toledo Symphony Youth Orchestras (TSYO) will present a special performance at 1PM. 
• MARCH 12 – Members of the Toledo Symphony Brass Quintet will present a free performance and demonstration at 12PM, followed by a Toledo Symphony School of Music (TSSM) solo recital at 1:30PM. 
• MARCH 20 – Students enrolled in lessons at the Toledo School for the Arts (TSA) will perform a recital at 1PM. 
• MARCH 26 – Members of the TSO String Quartet will perform and have a demonstration at 12PM along with an instrument petting zoo at 12PM-2:30PM. 
• MARCH 27 – Students from Start High School and Toledo Early College will perform at 12:30PM. 

“I am so thankful that Imagination Station invited us to celebrate Music in Our Schools Month by featuring the many different groups of music students we work with,” continues Schultz. “Many of these opportunities will be rather informal which will be great for the student performers and allow visiting families to stay and listen as long as they can!” 

For more information, please contact Rachel Schultz, Director of Education & Community Engagement for the Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts at rschultz@artstoledo.com or Andi Roman, Marketing & Strategy Director at Imagination Station at aroman@itscience.org. 

ABOUT TOLEDO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 

The Toledo Symphony Orchestra is a community-supported organization of professional musicians and teachers who deliver quality performance and music education for all. 

Formed in 1943 as The Friends of Music and incorporated in 1951 as the Toledo Orchestra Association, Inc., the Toledo Symphony Orchestra (TSO) has grown from a core group of twenty-two part-time musicians to a regional orchestra that employs sixty-nine professional musicians who consider the Toledo Symphony their primary employer, as well as numerous extra players annually as repertoire demands. 

On January 1, 2019, the Toledo Symphony and Toledo Ballet officially merged to form the Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA), a new non-profit organization dedicated to providing exceptional live music and dance performances and education for the region. This partnership promises to create new and invigorating programs, provide cost and revenue synergies in operations, and integrate the arts through shared educational missions. 

The Toledo Symphony reaches more than 260,000 individuals annually through performances and education programs. The series concerts (Masterworks, Pops, Chamber) are the critical underpinning of the orchestra’s artistic mission and regularly draw people from 135 postal zip codes. Education programs, student performances, and community concerts are held in schools, neighborhood churches, performing arts centers, and community facilities throughout the region; many are offered at no charge or provided at a reduced fee to help expand participation. 

ABOUT IMAGINATION STATION 

Imagination Station provides a critical layer of science enrichment by serving as an educational partner for teachers, schools and parents. It’s with a thoughtful blend of exhibits, experiences, education and excitement that Imagination Station inspires visitors to pursue STEM careers in Northwest Ohio.