The Youth Orchestra Division (YOD) Directors serves as an advisory group to the League of American Orchestras.
The mission of the Youth Orchestra Division of the League is to promote youth orchestras as essential musical, educational, and cultural assets and to provide resources to help all youth orchestras build and maintain artistic and organizational excellence.
Lucia Brawley delivers the keynote address at the biennial Music Educators Symposium at the Yale School of Music.
A recent Wallace Foundation conference gathered arts organizations that are responding creatively to the challenges of a difficult economic climate and building their audiences by using market research, re-branding, and drawing audience-building lessons from other sectors such as professional sports.
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Celebrating and Supporting American Youth Orchestras
This handbook represents the experience and wisdom of many successful youth orchestras, and is meant to provide guidance for newcomers to the exciting challenge of providing rewarding musical experiences for young musicians. It addresses many challenges familiar to all youth orchestras: achieving greater visibility, establishing cooperation with school systems, nurturing community responsiveness, finding good board members, and planning for the future while meeting current needs. (note: The Youth Orchestra Handbook is a photocopy from the original)
The Youth Orchestra Handbook includes:
Chapter 1 - Youth Orchestra Basics
Chapter 2 - Basics of Financial Management
Chapter 3 - Artistic Operations
Chapter 4 - The Youth Orchestra Office
Chapter 5 - Youth Orchestra Touring and Exchanges
Chapter 6 - Fund Raising and Community Relations
Members: $10 / Non-members: $15
Stay connected via e-mail discussion groups, courtesy of the League of American Orchestras. The groups serve as a platform to pose questions, seek advice, and broadcast information to a select group of people.