Education/Community Engagement Recommended Reading
Beyond Tradition II
The "Beyond Tradition II" report is a study of promising practices in
orchestra education as represented by the 2003 - 2007 winners of the
Bank of America Awards for Excellence in Orchestra Education.
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Teaching Artists Research Project
Teaching Artists and the Future of Education found that their work is critical to the future of arts education and to improving the quality of schools. Read a report on a three-year study of teaching artists (TAs) who make teaching a part of their professional practice.
Lucia Brawley Speech
Lucia Brawley delivers the keynote address at the biennial Music
Educators Symposium at the Yale School of Music.
Read and watch the keynote address
Engaging Audiences
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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Reaching a Broader Community
James M. Rosser, president of California State University, sets the tone
for a better understanding of the role of the orchestra in reaching out
to contemporary urban communities. Includes responses by John Gidwitz,
executive director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, James F. Mann,
general manager of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Mark C.
Volpe, executive director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
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Community Engagement Programs: Suggested Evaluation Guidelines
The League has developed a set of suggested guidelines for orchestras to
evaluate their community engagement programs. It's designed for any
orchestra undertaking community engagement work, as well as for those
applying to the MetLife Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement.
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Developing Community Partnerships
Thomas V. Chema, executive director of Gateway Economic Development
Corporation, identifies the impact an orchestra makes on its community.
Includes responses by Nicky B. Carpenter, chairman of The Minnesota
Orchestra, and Bud Lindstrand, chairman of the Oregon Symphony.
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Partnerships
Researchers Design New Ways to Gauge Arts Spillover
Deborah Viadero describes how a handful of new studies are taking a
different, and some say more productive, look at how to capture arts
learning's full range of benefits.
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The Kids Play Great. But That Music . . .
A humorous description of a parent's experience attending a child's
school concerts
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Three Rs Are Essential, but Don't Forget the A -- the Arts
Elliot Eisner describes the lessons that the arts teach
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