Photo Galleries

Symposium Panel 1 Will El Sistema work in U.S. public schools?
Symposium Panel 2 "Seeing Through Diamond's Eyes" | Linking Music to the General Classroom
Symposium Workshops Music and Storytelling | Emerging Voices: A Lyric and Songwriting Project
Breakout Sessions Discussion and Reports on Symposium Topics

Resources

Thank you for participating in the 2009 Symposium on Music in Schools which took place on the Yale University campus on June 10-11, 2009.

The Symposium focused on two primary topics for which you may refer to the resource material below:

1. El Sistema, the famous Venezuelan music education system, and how it might translate in the United States
2. How music teachers can link to the general classroom.
   
   

Articles

• El Sistema: Changing Lives Through Music
• Venezuela Youths Transformed by Music
• LA Times: Linda Ronstadt hails El Sistema in front of House subcommitee
• El Sistema: Music of hope from the barrios
• Music saved the street children of Venezuela – could it work for Scotland too?
• The State Foundation for the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela
• Conductor Gustavo Dudamel brings El Sistema to the world