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WATCH: Yo-Yo Ma discusses arts in education

Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma discusses the purpose of music and the immeasurable benefits of engaging with…

WATCH: CSO connects in classrooms

September 9-15 is National Arts in Education Week. The CSO’s Negaunee Music Institute is a committed partner to local schools,…

CSO connects to classrooms through science-inspired musical projects

The CSO-Connect Curriculum Program brings CPS teachers from arts and non-arts classrooms together to develop lessons tied to a yearly…

Orchestras Support In-School Music Education

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and orchestras nationwide are proud to celebrate National Arts in Education Week! We are committed partners…

CSO’s Dan Armstrong promotes the role of music in the classroom

Daniel Armstrong joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in June 1995, after 12 seasons as assistant principal bass in the Milwaukee Symphony…

For students of this Chicago teacher, music is ‘the great equalizer’

Jason Fahrenbach teaches music technology and chorus at Walt Disney Magnet School, one of the Negaunee Music Institute’s school partners located…

Arts education leads music teacher to personal and professional success

A middle-school music teacher and band director in Romeoville, Ill., Michael Fogarty also is an oboist with the DuPage Symphony…

Principal Mira Weber recalls the personal impact of arts education

Mira Weber is the principal at Louis A. Agassiz Elementary School, a fine- and performing-arts magnet cluster in the Chicago…

Chorus member, a teaching artist, insists music ‘is like my heartbeat’

Cari Plachy Dinglasan, a certified music educator, has been a teaching artist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s school partnership programs…

Mimi Duginger, CSOA League president, recalls role as a music educator

Mimi Duginger, a Chicago Symphony Orchestra trustee, also is president of The League of the CSOA. A group of dedicated…

Ingenuity: Your best budget decision in 1 minute

Ingenuity works to increase arts education access, equity and quality in Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Our mission is to ensure…