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Community Engagement

National Symphony Orchestra

NSO "In Your Neighborhood" 2024 Riverfront

MARCH 18-24, 2024

You’re invited to join us for In Your Neighborhood, a week-long residency with free programs and activities, in partnership with local schools, museums, and organizations.

Sound Health

Working with music therapists, social workers, and medical professionals, the NSO performs at the National Institue of Health and offers Sound Health Fridays, which combines music, singing, and dance as a healing practice.

Notes of Honor

The NSO’s Notes of Honor initiative aims to recognize and express our gratitude to active duty and prior service members, veterans, and retired service members through free programming at the Kennedy Center.

Cartography Project

Inspired by the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a visual interpretation of the moral trauma of our history, The Cartography Project seeks to use music as both a source of healing and a way to open dialogue about the future of anti-racism. The NSO, WNO, and Kennedy Center will be commissioning composers and librettists from regions spanning the entire country to create work that responds to an event that has occurred in that region and also asks, “Where do we go from here?”

This year focuses on the future of Black Dignity in Detroit, Seattle, Houston, and New Orleans.