Mar/Apr 2008
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Cover story

Southern Youthquake

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by Heidi Waleson

The breakout success of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela’s acclaimed music-education “sistema” has many people in the orchestra world looking in an unaccustomed direction: the Southern hemisphere.

Features

The Next Generation

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by Stephanie Stein Crease

Symphony orchestras from Omaha to Los Angeles to New York are rethinking how young people can once again have meaningful experiences playing classical music—our own “American miracle.”

Big Dreams, Big Sounds

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by Jennifer Melick
How do you pull off top-level performances when your orchestra’s total annual budget is a small fraction of those in the country’s top tier? Three orchestras do it with an extra dose of ambition and creativity.