Empowering youth and children in Corona, Queens to excel through their participation in an orchestra.
Part of El Sistema, a global movement that uses music education as a vehicle for social change, we use the orchestra to get youth involved in their community. Our tuition-free programs include Orchestra, Orchestral Initiation and Youth Mentoring programs for children and youth from 1st grade to college.
“An orchestra is a community
where the essential feature is that it comes together with the fundamental objective of agreeing with itself. Therefore, a person who plays in an orchestra lives the experience of agreement.
“And what does the experience of agreement mean? Team practice - the practice in a group that recognizes itself as interdependent, where everyone is responsible for others and the others are responsible for oneself. To agree on what? On creating beauty.”
–Dr. José Antonio Abreu, Founder of El Sistema.
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