September 2010 -DC Youth Orchestra featured in Washington Post article about the organization and the 50th Anniversary and the move to Eastern HS.
     Click here to read the article

August 2010 -DC Youth Orchestra Program celebrates in grand style on the Concert Hall Stage of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  Program includes the amazing Marvin Hamlisch, Music Director and Conductor Maestro Jesus Manuel Berard, the world premiere of a piece by alumnus John Christopher Wineglass, a guest appearance by founder Maestro Lyn McLain, and an alumni orchestra of 110 musicians.
     Click here to read the Washington Post review
     Click here to hear and watch the performance on the Kennedy Center website.
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August 2010 -Washington Examiner prints article about the DC Youth Orchestra Program's 50th Anniversary.
     Click here to read the article (PDF)

August 2010 -Current Newspapers print article about the DC Youth Orchestra Program's 50th Anniversary.  Article runs in the NW Currrent, Foggy Bottom Current, Dupot Current, and the Georgetown Current.
     Click here to read the article (PDF, article starts on page 13)

July 2010 -Hill Rag article about the DC Youth Orchestra Program moving to Eastern Senior High School
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June 2010 -Washington Post mentions DC Youth Orchestra Program's move to Eastern Senior High School
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June 2010 - DC Youth Orchestra Program announces that it is moving to Eastern Senior High School after 50 years at Coolidge High School.
     Click here to read the press release

November, 2009- DC Youth Orchestra Program forges Sister-Orchestra relationship with the Organization of American States
     Click here to see the press release

November, 2009- Youth Orchestra students perform for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
      Click here to read the Secretary's opening remarks

October, 2009- Washington Post publishes an article about the DCYOP andMaestro Maazel's visit to the program.  The visit was on October 17 and the article was published on October 22.
     Click here to read the article
     Click here to hear WTOP Bob Madigan's Preview Feature

October, 2009- District Chronicles publishes article about DCYOP, covering the fall Petting Zoo and Open House.
     Click here to read the article

October, 2009- Street Sense paper in DC publishes article about the DCYouth Orchestra Program.
     Click here to read the article     .

August 17, 2009 - DC Youth Orchestra Program voted "best music classes" in the DC metropolitan area by Nickelodeon's Parents Connect.
     Click here to visit Parents Connect webpage

June 2009 - Metro Herald feature front-page article about the DC Youth Orchestra Program
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June 6, 2009 - July/August Issue - Symphony Magazine Article about DC Youth Orchestra Program
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June 1, 2009 - DC Youth Orchestra Program subject of a feature story in The Hill Rag, Washington, DC
     Click here to read the story on the Hill Rag website
     Click here to download the PDF of the story (with photos)

May 29, 2009 - DC Youth Orchestra Program featured on NPR All Things Considered
     Click here to listen to the story
     Click here to go to the NPR page and listen to the story

April 13, 2009 - DC Youth Orchestra Performs at the Obama Administration's first Easter Egg Roll.  DC Youth Orchestra seen and mentioned on Good Morning America (4/13) and included in the Washington Post (4/14).
     Click here to read the Washington Post Article about the Easter Egg Roll

March 23, 2009 - DCYOP students perform at the Mayor's Arts Awards Reception


March 27, 2009 - DCYOP students perform at the National Endowment for the Arts meeting - Executive Director, Ava Spece, gives a brief speech about the program to the arts council.
     Click here to see the NEA website article about the meeting
     Click here to read the NEA Speech (PDF)                 
     Click here to see the NEA ARTS Magazine with an overview of the meeting
March 2009 - DCYOP interviewed for March issue of Washington Parent Magazine
      Click here to read the Washington Parent Article

December 25, 2008 - DCYOP mentioned in Washington Examiner article "Final Feel-Good Moment for 'O8", Harry Jaffe
     Click here to read the Washington Examiner Article

November 23, 2008 - DCYOP mentioned in Washington Post article "Good Deeds In Hard Times: The Annual Thanks Column", Marc Fisher, Washington Post
     Click here to read the Washington Post Article

October 1, 2008 - DCYOP chosen by as "one of the best small nonprofits in the greater Washington region" for inclusion in the 2008-09 Catalogue for Philanthropy
     Click here for the Catalogue website.