Share your love of music with your children. Music for Life is a way for families to experience classical music together. Parents (or grandparents) bring children between the ages of four and ten to our concerts. They sit together in the audience for the first orchestra work on the program. Then Maestro Heatherington invites the children to go to a separate room with professional music educators from the Music Institute of Chicago. There they learn more about the music they have heard, the composer or the historical and cultural setting of the music. Instructors use visual arts, drama, storytelling and movement to stimulate the children's own imagination and creativity. Adult companions enjoy the remainder of the concert, join their children during intermission for refreshments, and pick them up when the concert is over. The program is FREE for the children and free childcare for the entire concert is available for siblings under the age of four. Simply purchase the adult tickets and register your child with the box office. Subscribe to all five concerts or purchase single concert tickets. Find out more at: www.arsviva.org.