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Strings for Schools, Gabriel's Music Outreach Program
Gabriel's Music
Gabriel's Music is one of the most exciting and promising initiatives that SfS has developed in our more than three decades of in-school and community music education programs. Originally the dream of visionary philanthropist Hilary Green, Gabriel's Music draws its inspiration from a system of youth orchestras that have transformed the lives of youngsters from impoverished, crime-ridden areas of Venezuela.
As shown on a CBS 60 Minutes segment, these youth orchestras have had a profound impact on the poorest communities in Venezuela; some participants have actually become professional musicians and many have emerged as highly productive adults in society. Working closely with Ms. Green and the School District of Philadelphia, SfS has designed a similar, broad-based music program in the economically stressed area of South Philadelphia for students who lack cultural opportunities and constructive outlets, with an after-school youth orchestra as the project's linchpin.
This first Gabriel's Music Youth Orchestra will begin in October 2005 and will be composed of public, private, and charter students from widely diverse cultural backgrounds, and is supported by both in-school and after-school music instruction. The project integrates many components of arts learning and community building to serve a single, highly stressed Philadelphia neighborhood and has received strong financial and institutional backing from the School District of Philadelphia, the Samuel S. Fels Fund, and he Patricia Kind Family Foundation.
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