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"An extraordinary year that culminated in an event so spectacular, it brought together families, teachers, and students, and rallied the whole community."

- Thomas Rabone, Principal, Maple Hill Middle School, Castleton, N.Y.

Unprecedented diversity on stage fortifies the community.

With unprecedented diversity on stage, the Concert Curriculum embraces a mixture of musical styles, theater and music, and performers from different backgrounds and ages. It is the face of the community, and it beams.

The Concert Curriculum opens up doors, literally and figuratively.

In Albany, New York, many of the students who lived in the shadow of the Palace Theater and under the cloud of poverty, had never stepped foot inside the historic venue. The Concert Curriculum not only brought them inside, but placed them onto the stage, in performance with the city’s premier classical ensemble, the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Indeed, the program opens up the “palace” doors, and welcomes everyone inside, demonstrating the potential for every member of the community to achieve remarkable things, particularly when working together.

Family involvement in student learning, in school and out.

As observed by the principal of the Maple Hill Middle School, just as there is a link between family interest in general sports and school sports, the family's interest in academic and cultural learning is linked to and boosted by its experience with the Concert Curriculum.

When the pillars are strengthened, the community thrives.

The community is strengthened when its citizens and institutions succeed. Because it is good for young people, good for arts organizations, and good for schools, the Concert Curriculum strengthens pillars of the community.

Documented benefits.

The Arts Education Partnership developed a report at the request of the U.S. Department of Education and National Endowment for the Arts entitled "A Guide to Arts and Education Collaboration." The report "draws on and summarizes the knowledge and experience of a great many leaders throughout the United States who have found partnerships an effective and productive approach to addressing their communities' needs."   Read the report >>