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Teacher Seminars and Resources
Supporting Music Education
Working with school districts and teacher groups, the Philharmonic designs and offers stimulating seminars for music educators. Led by Philharmonic Teaching Artists, most sessions are built around attendance at a rehearsal of the Orchestra.
Professional Development at the Philharmonic
Sample Workshop:
Exploring Inquiry Through an Encounter with Handel's Messiah
The Philharmonic's Education Department developed this daylong session with the Integrated Curriculum and Instruction Learning Support Organization of New York City, with the aim of strengthen-
ing instruction in music classes and ensembles K-12.
- Teaching Artist David Wallace led an opening session uncovering the many forms of inquiry embedded in arts learning.
- Participants attended a New York Philharmonic rehearsal of Messiah to identify the forms of inquiry they use in hearing the work.
- Organist and conductor Kent Tritle discussed the many questions he considers in preparing and performing a work like Messiah.
- In groups, participants reflected on their inquiry-based experience of Messiah, and brainstormed ways to make inquiry explicit in their classes and ensembles.
