Strings for Schools

Strings for Schools works to inspire a lifelong involvement in music in students and to connect schools with their local communities in order to celebrate the student’s musical achievements. This is accomplished through enrichment programs that are designed to foster an appreciation for and knowledge of our world's great music and connect students with their own cultural backgrounds or those of their peers. This is not only a matter of rebuilding music education in these schools, but an attempt to rebuild the self-esteem of students and the quality of life of the entire community

Strings for Schools began giving individual assemblies for the schools in the Chester-Upland School District five years ago when music had been eliminated from all but one of the schools in the city. Strings for Schools is committed to working in Chester with the goal of creating a Chester High School Marching Band that will match or exceed the quality of music that once existed in this area.