Profoundly moving moments like this have become almost commonplace in and around New York in the summers since Carnegie Hall founded the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA) in 2013. “I’m trying to make you conductor-proof,” Mr. Ross said at one point, a statement that could be read in two ways. PhotoAnd Carnegie last year expanded the program, adding NYO2 for younger players, 14 through 17, recruited with an eye toward diversity. Unlike its American counterparts, the National Youth Orchestra of China is not a Carnegie creation. “It’s more like training athletes,” Qing Li, the principal second violinist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and an NYO-China teaching artist said.

Source: New York Times July 18, 2017 20:48 UTC