A new partnership: LA Philharmonic, Longy, Bard

In recent weeks, there has been a very exciting development in the growing El Sistema-inspired movement in the United States. In addition to the three-year-old Abreu Fellows Program at NEC and the El Sistema USA organization, there is now a partnership between the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bard College, and the Longy School of Music that will focus on growing the field of teaching artists who are specifically qualified to work with youth in this country's growing number of nucleos.

Read Dan Wakin's piece in The New York Times here.