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Students in the Summer Youth Project participate in a wind ensemble rehearsal.

Conductor, cellist, music critic, and music educator W. Llewellyn Wilson (center) conducted the Baltimore City Colored Orchestra and Chorus and was a leader in Baltimore’s classical music community in the early 20th century.

Upton Mansion, a historic building in the Upton neighborhood in Baltimore, housed the Baltimore Institute of Musical Arts from 1947-1954. Once a beautiful facility that was home to a vibrant music community, it has been abandoned since 2006.

This is a photo of Upton Mansion from 1936, eleven years before it housed the Baltimore Institute of Musical Arts. The Institute was a thriving music school open to all races at a time when Peabody remained closed to African-American students.

This is the opening speech for the first Summer Youth Project, a Peabody program geared towards underserved Baltimore music students.

The Peabody Conservatory student body submitted this 20-page document to the administration following the firing of a beloved faculty member, Madame Renée Longy. It includes many complaints and incidents that were contributing to a negative…

Several students in the Summer Youth Project pose on Peabody’s spiral staircase the day of a rehearsal with the National Symphony Orchestra.

Four students in the Summer Youth Project pose on columns at Peabody’s front entrance, just outside the George Peabody Library.

Five students in the Summer Youth Project pose in front of the Peabody Institute sign at the corner of Washington Place and Monument Street.

In this letter, Thomas B. Butler, a member of the Peabody Institute Board of Trustees, responds to William L. Marbury with his opinion on the admission of Paul A. Brent to the Conservatory.