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Originally conceived and implemented in 1973 in response to severe city budget cuts to arts programs, the Summer Music Study Program (SMSP), provides five-weeks of singing, musicianship, and movement classes each summer to over 225 children and 45 teachers and counselors from six, publicly funded, Harlem day care centers, as well as two New York City social service agencies. The goals of the SMSP are to cultivate the children's innate musicality, as well as teach them elemental music concepts for their future music education.
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Established in 1985, the Outreach Teacher Training Program offers early childhood music education courses for day care and Head Start teachers from all five boroughs of New York City. During these semester-long, recommended undergraduate and graduate credit courses at Diller-Quaile, teachers gain an understanding of young children's musical development, and acquire skills and strategies for implementing an engaging folk music curriculum in their classrooms that is geared toward the developmental needs of their students.
The Partnership Program, the on-site component of the Teacher Training Program, arranges for two Diller-Quaile faculty members to visit three Harlem public day care centers eight times each to conduct music classes for 146 children and music education workshops for teachers and staff. The objective of this program is to further enhance the music curriculum at day care centers in a manner that fosters the children's musical, cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development.
Established in 1994, the Classical Access program introduces 200 elementary school-age children to chamber music through a series of presentations by the Diller-Quaile String Quartet, one of the School's celebrated ensembles-in-residence. The musicians perform movements from classical pieces, then engage the students in discussions about the music, composers, and instruments, so that the children will acquire some basic tools and resources for analyzing and understanding music. During the school year, Classical Access visits three New York City public day care centers in Harlem and the Bronx, as well as P.S. 84 on the Upper West Side, three times each.
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Through the Diller-Quaile/Mount Sinai Hospital Program, Arc Duo, one of the School's acclaimed ensembles-in-residence, performs a series of flute/guitar concerts for the benefit of patients, staff, and visitors at this medical center. This program was implemented in 2003.
The Diller-Quaile/Burden Center for the Aging Partnership (which began in 2000) brings music to the Burden Center's Luncheon Program for the elderly in the form of three concerts per year by the Diller-Quaile String Quartet, and weekly chorus sessions, led by two Diller-Quaile faculty members
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In keeping with its mission and its belief that music is in everyone and for everyone, Diller-Quaile is strongly committed to providing need-based tuition assistance to students enrolled at the School through its Scholarship Fund.
Diller-Quaile is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that relies on contributions to its Annual Fund each year to help bridge the gap between tuition revenues and expenses. The Annual Fund allows the School to keep tuition increases to a minimum while maintaining its superb faculty, Outreach Programs, and Scholarship Fund.
The Diller-Quaile School of Music is most grateful to the following donors for their support of our outreach programming: The Alice Tully Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the many contributors to the School's Annual Fund.
