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INTEMPO Hosts National Delegation from PlayUSA, a Program of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute

INTEMPO Hosts National Delegation from PlayUSA, a Program of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute
INTEMPO Hosts National Delegation from PlayUSA, a Program of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute
  • 20
  • Apr

Award-winning Music Education Organization, INTEMPO, hosts two-day intervisitation and network conversations around Great Music Teaching Framework (GMT)

INTEMPO, the award-winning Stamford Connecticut-based youth-development organization, has been selected as host of a two-day national intervisitation delegation that will include 15 music educators and administrators from PlayUSA, a program of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute.

Representing states from Massachusetts to California, the program will expose guests to INTEMPO’s partnerships with Norwalk Public Schools dual-language program at Jefferson Elementary School; podcast studio and audio production program in partnership with The Village Community Foundation, network conversations and parent panel, middle school council meeting, and observations of the INTEMPO Music School. The internal schedule will consist of network conversations led by renowned researcher Dr. Dennie Wolf who conducts national research and data analysis on after-school music education programs and the impact on children’s holistic development.

Attendees include representatives from the following organization, Buffalo String Works (NY), Capital Harmony Works (NJ), Community Music Center of Boston (MA), Community Music Works (RI), East Bay Performing Arts Center (NY), Enriching Lives Through Music (CA), Soundscapes (VA), Worcester Chamber Music Society (MA), Carnegie Hall (NYC), and WolfBrown (MA).

“We are honored to have been selected as a model organization and intercultural program and to meet with PlayUSA’s national delegation,” said Angelica Durrell, INTEMPO Founder and CEO. “INTEMPO has learned and improved our teaching practices through their professional development workshops since 2018. Being able to welcome them to our Stamford and Norwalk community is a highlight for our entire faculty, students and board,” said Durrell.

INTEMPO has been a PlayUSA grantee and partner since 2018, receiving multi-year support for its innovative and intercultural music education programs.

ABOUT INTEMPO - Founded in 2011, INTEMPO provides high-quality music education to children predominantly from immigrant backgrounds and from communities underrepresented in the arts. Its mission is to engage, educate, and enrich the lives of children by making classical and intercultural music relevant, accessible, and inclusive, and to help close the achievement gap by developing their musical, social-emotional, and interpersonal skills. At INTEMPO’s Music School in Stamford, CT, more than 100 children are reaping the benefits of learning how to play an instrument. They are strengthening their powers of memory and focus, building their language skills and reading ability needed to succeed in the classroom and beyond. INTEMPO’s mission—making music education accessible, inclusive, and effective by removing the financial, social, language, and cultural barriers that limit opportunity. For more information, visit intempo.org.

INTEMPO receives major support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lewis Prize for Music, Carnegie Hall Play USA, Hot Topic Foundation and Connecticut Office of the Arts.
ABOUT CARNEGIE HALL’S EDUCATION PROGRAM - Within the past decade, the expansion of Carnegie Hall’s education and social impact programs across the country has created a national community of teachers who are dedicated to providing the best music education to their students. This community includes teachers who partner with programs that include Musical Explorers, Link Up, and PlayUSA. These programs are underpinned by webinars, program convenings, and digital resources made available to teachers and partner organizations for free, as well as the Music Educators Workshop, in which teachers share best practices, develop new skills, learn from arts practitioners, and create a professional learning community—investing in the people across the country who will teach students for years to come.