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EDITORIAL
Rehearsing Community for a Better Tomorrow

07-09-2025

As Executive Director Liz Moulthrop remarked during El Sistema USA’s East Coast Regional Gathering, “Community is our power.” Yet too often programs operate in isolation, brilliant islands of musical striving that rarely connect with the broader archipelago of creative youth development work happening across the world. This siloing, while understandable given resource constraints and logistical challenges, represents a missed opportunity to address our urgent need for unity.

In fact, we must double down on gathering. The practice of community.

The El Sistema USA National Symposium: A Report from a First-Timer

07-10-2024

As a first-time attendee at the El Sistema USA Symposium, an annual event that brings together people from across the U.S. who are involved in Sistema-inspired work, I didn’t quite know what to expect. But the experience was invaluable. It took place June 13-15, and I am still buzzing with inspiration and excitement about being part of the El Sistema community. 

Project Music Partners with Orchestra Lumos and GE to Create 3D-Printed Violins

06-05-2024

With an assist from modern technology, music just became more accessible for young people.

ESUSA Musicians Celebrate Ninth Annual El Sistema Residency

05-01-2024

The King School and Project Music just wrapped their Ninth Annual El Sistema Residency, hosting a cluster of east coast–based El Sistema USA programs for a weekend of musical exchange and performance.

Project Music Faculty Performs for Students

02-07-2024

In January, Project Music faculty and Music in the Wood performed a concert as a gift to their students, celebrating our shared values of collaboration and artistic expression.

A Special Partnership Generates a Regional Residency

06-01-2022

Music students from many regions, coming together across distances to spend days of intensive music-making together—around the world, this has long been one of El Sistema’s most famous and valued traditions. For the past two pandemic years, that tradition has been largely shut down.

But it’s beginning to come to life again.

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