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May 27, 2008

It feels like everyone here migrated from the Midwest or somewhere. But next time we run into that rare breed, the born-and-raised San Franciscan, we'll have to ask: did you, as a kid, attend Adventures in Music, aka. AIM, the outreach program from the San Francisco Symphony? AIM organizes (and pays for) performances by smaller ensembles in each of the schools of the SFUSD for 1st to 4th graders, and invite them all to special morning concerts at Davies Symphony Hall. Did the introduction leave you with a taste for music? Were you looking forward for these performances by diverse small ensembles playing for small-ish goups of kids coming to your school? Was it the high point of the week? Did you discover new sounds, new instruments, new music styles? Did you teacher tie up the program into the curriculum? Were you able to comprehend music differently, to see connections with physics, geography, architecture? The eduction program is blowing twenty candles this year, so a slew of kids who went through it (22,000 a year!) must be now SFist commenters. Teachers, feel free to give us your view too! We got questions, you got answers. Tell us how going to Davies Symphony Hall as a first grader was awesome, or exciting, or, goodness forbid, boring. Was it your first classical music experience? Your first time in a concert hall? Was your conductor at the time "kinda hot" (in the words of one of our commenters) like Benjamin Shwartz, who leads the orchestra for the AIM concerts nowadays? Did you notice kinda hot boys back then? Little perv, you were seven!...

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