Yale Seminar
The Yale Seminar took place at Yale University, June 17–28, 1963 to consider the problems facing music education and to propose possible solutions. The National Science Foundation had sponsored science curriculum development in the late 1950s. President John F. Kennedy appointed the Panel on Educational Research and Development, which recommended that the K-12 music curriculum of previous decades be examined to discover why school music programs had not produced a musically literate and active public. The U.S. Office of Education Cooperative Research Program awarded a grant to Yale University, and Claude V. Palisca was appointed director of the  Yale Seminar. Two areas of concern were identified: music materials and music performance. Juilliard Repertory Project. After the conclusion of the Yale Seminar, Dean Gideon Waldrop of Juilliard applied for a grant from the U.S. Office of Education to develop a large body of authentic and meaningful music materials to augment and enrich the repertory available to music teachers in the early grades. The grant was approved and the Project was established in July, 1964 with Vittorio Giannini as director. The Music Educators National Conference (MENC) indicated its support in the "Music Educators Journal". The purpose of the Project was  to collect music of high quality to be used for teaching grades K-6. The repertory was compiled by three groups: musicologists, music educators, and public elementary school music teachers. 230 vocal and instrumental works were included in the "Juilliard Repertory Library."