Simon Bolivar Orchestra visits YOLA

Harmony Project’s YOLA students spent the week attending master classes with Simon Bolivar Orchestra of Venezuela, then teamed up for a concert at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Here, an SBO oboist talks about melody in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5:

Univision covers Harmony Project

TIME Magazine Covers Harmony Project

TIME ran a story about Harmony Project’s YOLA orchestra and its roots in the highly influential Venezuelan program El Sistema.

“YOLA is also sought after because children find a caring staff that offers moral support and helps kids traverse the turbulent teenage years. [Harmony Project program manager Paloma] Ramos, for example, not only helps students flourish as musicians but also gives them feedback on the essays they write for their college applications…”

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2103335,00.html#ixzz1iQq7zec8

Harmony Project on MSN Noticias Latino

MSN Noticias Latino featured Harmony Project in a recent article:
http://noticias.latino.msn.com/entretenimiento/articulos.aspx?cp-documentid=31776546

Jam in the Van, Part 2

Here are two more videos from our fruitful collaboration with Jam in the Van! This time, Harmony Project students teamed up with The Dustbowl Revival for two songs:

Old Joe Clark

Riverboat Queen