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Learn musical fundamentals with Gerard Schwarz and The All Star Orchestra course on Khan Academy.

The All-Star Orchestra educational series, in conjunction with the Khan Academy, has reached over 7 million students

Logo of the All-Star Orchestra, featuring the text 'the all star ORCHESTRA' in red and black, with 'GERARD SCHWARZ MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR' below.

Course Overview

  • Notes and rhythm: Music basics

    Reading music

  • Woodwinds: Band instrument lessons

    Brass: Band instrument lessons

    Percussion

    Auditioning

  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5: Masterpieces old and new

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4: Masterpieces old and new

    Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish": Masterpieces old and new

    Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture: Masterpieces old and new

    Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": Masterpieces old and new

    Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 – 1st Movement: Masterpieces old and new

    Igor Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird: Masterpieces old and new

    Maurice Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloe: Masterpieces old and new

    Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5: Masterpieces old and new

    Introduction to Philip Glass' "Harmonium Mountain": Masterpieces old and new

    Bernard Rands: Adieu: Masterpieces old and new

    Augusta Read Thomas: Of Paradise and Light: Masterpieces old and new

    Bright Sheng: Black Swan: Masterpieces old and new

    Richard Danielpour: Piano Concerto No. 4, Movement III: Masterpieces old and new

    David Stock: Blast!: Masterpieces old and new

    Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Avanti!: Masterpieces old and new

    Joseph Schwantner: The Poet's Hour

  • Strings: Instruments of the orchestra

    Woodwinds: Instruments of the orchestra

    Brass

    Percussion