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School Visits and Children’s Library Program
For the second year, the Fayetteville Symphony will be able to send musicians into local schools in the Cumberland County School System, Fort Bragg schools, and some private and home schools to present programs that support the music curriculum in the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.  These visits to middle and high schools include a discussion on chamber music, information about the orchestra, and demonstrations on selected instruments.

During the summer of 2009, our Education Program had the opportunity to help support summer reading programs for young children at Headquarters Library and Cliffdale Library in Cumberland County, and also at Throckmorton Library at Fort Bragg.  The goal for “Be Creative @ Your Library” was not only to encourage young children to read during the summer, but to encourage them to select books with music themes to learn more about music and musicians.  After each of four musicians demonstrated their instruments, a story was read and interspersed with performances to help illustrate the story. 

A grant from The Youth Growth Stock Trust, administered through the United Way of Cumberland County funds both these programs. 

3rd Grade Concert
Funds from the Cumberland County Education Foundation (CCEF) and the Harry Louis Yanoff and Jeanette Master Yanoff Charitable Fund of the Cumberland Community Foundation continue their support of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra in a collaborative effort with the Cumberland County Schools to present a concert for the school system’s third graders.  In addition to the concert, this grant funds visits by musicians to eight selected schools to enhance prior classroom instruction by their music teachers.   This year students in selected schools will receive an informative and interactive booklet about the orchestra, partially funded by the CCEF.

The Fayetteville Symphony was invited to perform the same program last season for students in the Nash-Rocky Mount School System.

For information and photos from last season's concert and school visits, click here.

Symphony @ Your Library
The North Carolina Arts Council’s “Arts and Audiences” grant funds an integral part of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra’s education program.  This season, five pre-concert lectures will be presented at the Cumberland County Headquarters Library from 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. (dates are listed below).  The lectures are free and open to music lovers of all ages. 

The lecturer will focus on the historical context of the pieces which the symphony will perform, biographical information on the composer and his contemporaries, intermixed with performances by a Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra Ensemble. 

• Monday, October 12
• Thursday, November 12
• Wednesday, January 27
• Tuesday, March 2
• Tuesday, April 20

Harlan Duenow Young Artist Concerto Competition and Scholarship
In the spring each year the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra awards a $1,000 cash scholarship to a Cumberland County student through a competitive process. The scholarship is named in honor of the orchestra’s longest serving conductor, the late Harlan Duenow.

Click here for eligibility and application.