Note: The Intensive Community Program as founded by Audrey White no longer exists at the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. For further information on the program as founded by Audrey White please email awhite@urbanstrings.org.The following outlines how that program was run from 1994-1998.
The Intensive Community
Program
Audrey L. White, Founder 1994
Statement of Purpose:
The Intensive Community Program
was created to provide string ensemble training and support for inner
city youth. The ICP provided individual lessons, music theory classes,
small sectional rehearsals and periodic evaluations for students. Through
the program students gained the background necessary to graduate to the
more advanced orchestras. It also prepared students for entrance into
advanced training programs such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Project
S.T.E.P. Below is the brochure used for the program. More
information about ICP , click here.
Audrey L. White, founder, was for 7 years the conductor
of GBYSO's Preparatory String Orchestra, and Director of The Greater Boston
Youth Symphony Orchestras' inner-city outreach program, The Intensive
Community Program (ICP). Ms. White began her study of the violin at the
age of four and went on to be accepted as one of the first participants
of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Project S.T.E.P. She is also a graduate
of the GBYSO program as well as the New England Conservatory of Music,
where she studied viola with Marcus Thompson and received her Bachelor's
in Viola Performance. Ms. White holds a silver medal from the NAACP's
NEC-ACTSO competition and was awarded the position of Graduate Fellow
at the University of Massachusetts Lowell for three years in a row. It
was from the University of Massachusetts Lowell that she earned her double
master's degrees in viola performance and conducting. She has studied
conducting with Kay George Roberts and has studied and performed in Japan
with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki. Currently Ms. White is a member of the National
Center for Afro-American Arts String Ensemble and she freelances on both
violin and viola throughout the New England area. She is also a member
of the string faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music's School
for Preparatory and Continuing Education, and is the conductor of the
Worcester Youth Concert Orchestra (WYCO) at the Performing Arts School
of Worcester.
Criteria
for Admission to The Intensive Community Program:
Students should be between the ages of 7- 10 yrs.
and able to play at least one song or piece in first position. More
advanced students will be play in a string orchestra.
Parent/ Guardian Agreement: A parent/guardian agreement stating a commitment to support the student in regular practice, attendance, and encouragement should be signed before the student enters ICP. Parents are expected to be present at lessons, rehearsals, and classes.
Location: Lessons, music theory and sectional rehearsals should be held at a location in the student's community.
Classes: Classes and individual lessons can be held on weekday afternoons. Local String Orchestra rehearsals should meet on Sunday afternoons.
Schedule: The program would be offered year round. Applications would be accepted throughout the year.
Please note- it is suggested that applicants join in October, February, or July.
Fall Term: October - February
Spring Term: February - July
Summer Term: July - September
Evaluations:
There should be two evaluation auditions during the year. These auditions can be held following the Winter and Spring Concerts to evaluate the progress of each student. Students must show progress in order to stay in the program. This means that a student should meet a "three year up or out" policy. Meaning that within 3 years a student should be able to advance to a more advanced program or orchestra.
Audrey L. White
Founder, Intensive Community Program
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