Thank you for the wonderful sounds you played us and for including our school. M.

Thank you for the beautiful music. T.

I really enjoyed the music. I would like to see it again. I really liked the trumpet. P.

We really loved your music and the concert hall. L.

I loved how the performers were so nice to us. J.

The children themselves give the best testimonials to the success of the Festival of the Sound’s Music Scores project. In the Festival’s innovative education program, Music Scores, children in Grades 4 to 6 in thirteen area schools enjoy six concert experiences, some of which have included the True North Brass, a woodwind quintet, a jazz ensemble, the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and most recently a quartet of singers. Prior to each of these concerts, the musicians visit every school, getting to know the students in an informal setting, demonstrating their instruments and preparing them for the concert. Then all 700 children come to the Stockey Centre by bus or on foot to listen to the musicians, now their friends, in a formal concert setting. No opening night audience can match the excitement that precedes each of these concerts.

Music Scores is offered without charge to the children, their families or the schools.

The Festival of the Sound thanks the following for the support that makes Music Scores possible:

The Recording Industries Music Performance Fund of the American Federation of Musicians

Ontario Arts Education Partnership Initiative

The donors who made us eligible for matching funds from the OAEPI.

TD Canada Trust


Kawartha Credit Union


Near North District School Board