Baltimore Symphony Announces New After-School Program
May 21, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
The new music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has pledged $100,000 of her own money to support a new after-school music program, OrchKids, for first-graders in Baltimore, reports The Baltimore Sun.
The program, modeled after Venezuela’s El Sistema program, will begin next fall with 25 first-graders in West Baltimore. The project’s partners include the city’s public-school system, the Peabody Institute, the Baltimore School for the Arts, and two other organizations, the paper reports.
Music Director Marin Alsop is using the last $100,000 of her $500,000 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award, which she won in 2005, to create a matching-grant program for OrchKids.
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