Brass players from the San Diego Youth Symphony’s Community Opus Project perform in their spring concert, May 2015.
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SPURT Natalie Hall coaches a student at Roxhill Elementary School as part of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra’s SYSO in the Schools program, May 2015.
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outh orchestras in the United States are not only alive and well, but are bringing a hands-on experience of classical music and collaborative art to an increasingly large and diverse segment of the youthful population, at multiple ages and levels of intensity. That’s the picture that emerges from Youth Orchestra Profile 2015, a new report prepared by the League of American Orchestras’ Knowledge Center summarizing results from its recent survey of League member youth orchestras (read the report at americanorchestras.org/youth). symphony
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