ASTA Yord Report: Youth Orchestra Research and Development

“The American String Teachers Association Presents a Code of Ethics …,” American String Teacher, Vol. XV, No. 1, Winter 1965, pp. 17, 18.

American Symphony Orchestra League Newsletter, (selected issues)

Avshalomov Jacob , Music Is Where You Make It; A Panoramic View of the Portland Junior Symphony, Portland, Ore: Portland, Jr. Symphony Assoc., 1959.

Crawford Loren B. , NSOA Soundpost: “The Utah Mountains Are Alive with the Sound of Youth Orchestras,” Instrumentalist, V. XXV, #10, May 197, pp. 68, 69.

Dalley Orien. “Youth Symphonies,” Instrumentalist, V. XIV, #9, May 1960, pp. 52–3.

Geoffrey Kenneth. “Holding on to Strings-Motivation,” School Musician, V. 41, #6, Feb. 1970, pp. 58, 59, 62.

Gray J. Austin. “The Development of the High School Orchestra in the State of California,” American String Teacher, Vol. XIV, No. 2, Spring 1964, pp. 12–17. (lists 33 California youth orchestras as of Jan. 1963).

Lantz Harry. “The Youth Orchestra: Quo Vadis?” Orchestra News, Vol. VII, #1, Dec. 1967, p. 7. [Also other issues, Vol. I to present.]

Love Ann Burnside. “The Youth Orchestra from a Kids-Eye View,” Music Educators Journal, Vol. 58, No. 4, Dec. 1971, pp. 43–45, 93.

Matesky Ralph. “A Case for Youth Orchestras,” American String Teacher, Vol. XI, No. 2, March-April 1961, pp. 12, 13.

Matesky Ralph. , “Youth Orchestras Around the World,” American String Teacher, Vol. XI, No. 4, Nov-Dec 1961, pp. 6–10.

Orchestra News, Vol I, No. 1 to present.

Rabin Marvin. “History and Analysis of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra from 1958 to 1964,” Ed.D. dissertation, Univ. of Ill. 1968, Univ. microfilms, 501 pp., #69-1416.

Rabin Marvin. , Kaplan Max . “Music. Music Education and Youth Orchestras,” Instrumentalist, Vol. XXV, No. 9, Apr. 1971 pp. 27–29.

“Survey of Youth Orchestras in the United States,” Portland Jr Symphony, 1965.

Weeks R. Stanwood. “Youth Symphony Orchestras,” School Musician, Vol. 38, No. 8, April 1967, pp. 76, 77.

Wingard Eilleen , “Peter Meremblum, Jr. Symphony's Celebration of the 35th Anniversary.” American String Teacher, V XXII #1, Winter 1972, pp. 31–35.

Youth Symphony News, Vol. I, No. 1, April 1964 and Vol. I, No. 2, June 1964.

“Youth Symphonies Gain Favor,” School Musician, Vol. 40, Aug-Sept 1968, p. 49. (States there are more than 360 Youth Orchestras).

Sieber Richard. “Youth Orchestra Consolidation,” NSOA Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 1, October 1972, pp. 5, 6.

Publications for YORD

Smith G. Jean , “YORD in Virginia” VASTA FINGERBOARD, Vol. VII, No. 3, Spring 1972, p. 6.

Smith G. Jean , “Progress Report on ASTA's Project YORD,” The American String Teacher, Vol. 22, No. 3, Summer 1972 pp. 42, 43.

Smith G. Jean , “Wither Goest the Youth Orchestra,” NSOA BULLETIN, October 1972, Vol. XV, No. 1, pp. 4, 5.

Smith G. Jean , “Indiana is First; Progress Report on ASTA's Project YORD,” ASTA NEWS OF INDIANA, Fall Issue, Vol VI, Fall 1972, pp. 8, 9, 10.