Over the last 30 years, Venezuela has developed the "sistema," arguably the most ambitious program of music education and orchestra training in the world.
Engineers based the robot's motions on those of Charles Burke, the orchestra's education director, as he conducted the piece about six months ago.
One program, Link Up, is designed to help orchestras provide education to elementary schools.
The city's cultural institutions include the Reading Symphony Orchestra and its education project the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra, the GoggleWorks Art Gallery and the Historical Society of Berks County.
Much of the coaching and teaching would take place in the orchestra's extensive education programs.
With his arrival the orchestra began an education outreach program.
Proceeds from these yearly concerts benefit service organizations around the county, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Institute for Non-Violence and the orchestra's own education program.
The four "streams" in music education — orchestra, chorus, marching band and jazz band — have remained constant for four decades, while a third generation is growing up listening to rock and pop music.
There was also an appearance by the orchestra's youth education project: the Fat Afro Latin Jazz Cats, a sleek, robust Latin big band that plays regularly at the Fat Cat club in the West Village.
The latest was held recently at the centre of the London Symphony Orchestra's music education programme, St Luke's on Old Street, by the Worshipful Company of Musicians (WCM).
During 1988 the orchestra adopted an education policy which included the establishment of "LSO Discovery", offering "people of all ages, from babies through music students to adults, an opportunity to get involved in music-making".
