Outreach

Reaching diverse audiences from school-aged children to senior citizens is a high priority for Musicians of the Old Post Road. The ensemble is committed to bringing quality presentations and performances to students that allow them to experience a variety of musical periods, styles, instruments, and composers.

Outreach presentations have reached more than 3,800 students in Boston and area schools. Musicians of the Old Post Road has been selected by the Massachusetts Cultural Council for its Artist Roster for outreach events and the PASS program. Schools interested in hosting an outreach event are encouraged to contact MCC for information about supplemental funding.

From the Fall of 2000 through  Spring of 2002, the ensemble established an outreach initiative with the Charles Taylor Elementary School in Dorchester. Entitled Composer of the Month, the program provided in-class readings about composers’ lives as well as performances by the ensemble. Since 2006, similar programs have been brought to the Trotter School, the Everett School, and the Lucy Stone School in Dorchester. This season, plans are in place to bring music of Handel and composers from early America in outreach programs to various Boston schools in the fall and spring. In the spring of 2005, the ensemble’s residency at Dartmouth College included presentations at a local elementary school and senior center, as well as masterclasses for Dartmouth students.

In an effort to encourage more children to attend series concerts, Old Post Road’s Kids Come Free program, initiated in 2004, allows children age 7 to 17 to attend most concert performances free of charge when accompanied by an adult.

If you are an educator and would like to book the ensemble for a program at your school, please contact us.

View our You Tube video of an outreach program at the Everett School in Dorchester, recorded in December, 2007.