How a Cultural Icon Works With Hospitals, Youths, and More
November 3, 2013 | Read Time: 1 minute
Sarah Johnson, director of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, is turning the old joke about how to get to Carnegie Hall upside down by developing creative ideas to get the organization’s musicians out and about to share their skills around New York City, across America, and around the world. Among the projects she has helped build:
Musical Connections
Collaborating with hospitals, social-service organizations, juvenile-justice facilities and other organizations, Carnegie musicians use music to help young people develop habits that will lead to success in adulthood.
National Youth Orchestra
An ensemble that is the first of its kind in the United States in 70 years.
Link Up
A free music-education curriculum Carnegie designed is now used by 58 orchestras in four countries.
Lullaby Project
Carnegie Hall musicians work with teenage-mothers-to-be to write songs that will help their infants sleep.
Photographs by Chris Lee and Jennifer Taylor.
