Noteworthy -
Caring for Our Young Audiences

Four Nations has developed the Noteworthy Project to respond to the need for attractive and interactive arts programming and to help nourish students' need for art in our time, in which most administrators and politicians feel that the arts are unnecessary ornaments.

For the last ten years, The Four Nations Ensemble has worked with selected schools in New York City and around the country. The trio, in cooperation with teachers, creates festivals of music, poetry, art and history. Concerts, art workshops, explorations of life in the Baroque era, exercises in writing prose and poetry, and projects that use skills of math and language enhance and enrich both the students' and teachers' work.

Festivals of the arts can be focused around an historical period (Music and young America), an aesthetic period (early Romanticism), a personality (Juana Inez de la Cruz or Beethoven) or a structural issue (variations, sonatas). Connections are made between all the arts while students write original poetry and paint images in an effort to translate sound into image and word.

Each member of the Four Nations Ensemble is committed to spreading the messages and joy of great art to young men and women, and our concerts for students are prepared with the same attention as performances for our most discriminating audiences. Only by hearing interpretations of integrity and intensity will classical music become necessary experiences for new audiences.