The Yale School of Music’s fifth Symposium on Music in Schools will take place in New Haven, Connecticut, from June 4 to 7, and will focus this year on partnerships between professional music organizations and public school music programs. Speakers will include MacArthur Fellow Sebastian Ruth, founding director of Community Music Works in Providence, Rhode Island; Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang; and journalist Joanne Lipman, who co-wrote Strings Attached with Melanie Kupchynsky, a violinist in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Attending the symposium will be representatives from 38 music-schools partnerships throughout the U.S., including the following partner orchestras: Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, Asheville Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Fresno Philharmonic, Great Falls Symphony Association, Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Portland Symphony Orchestra, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory, Sarasota Orchestra, and Toledo Symphony.
Posted March 30, 2015
