Music & You
In-School Youth Education

Palm Beach Pops is proud of its partnership with the Sun-Sentinel in the Music & You In-School Youth Education Program.

The activities in the program were designed to accompany the FCAT certified student booklet “Music and You”, and to enhance teaching of music in the classroom environment. Activities were written by the Sun-Sentinel NIE staff, an elementary teacher, with the final approval of the Palm Beach County Music and Arts Education Department.

Click on the "Music & You" image to view a PDF file with sample activities. For complete program information, please contact the Director of Education at Palm Beach Pops at 561.832.7677.

Florida Stars

The Florida Stars program provides opportunities for gifted local students to perform with the Pops, before a live audience, thus ensuring the perpetuation of a pool of talented young performers from the local area. Each season, Maestro Lappin searches for and auditions talented local students, ages 6-18, and offers them the opportunity to perform with the orchestra during a concert.

Tickets for Children and Families Program

The Tickets for Children & Families Program is a special extension of The Palm Beach Pops’ In-School Youth Education Program.Through the generosity of Founders Joan and Allen Bildner and other generous benefactors, promising students who complete one of the two four-week in-school series, maintain above-average grades and demonstrate a commitment to music, receive free tickets to a Palm Beach Pops concert.

In turn, they and their families have an opportunity to experience together a live, orchestral performance.

This valuable program clearly encourages young people to take an interest in music while being exposed to the positive messages conveyed by the American Songbook.