The Get to Know Your Orchestra Program (PEDCO, Spanish acronym) plays an educational role in the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra Corporation. It serves public and private schools students, and public housing and special communities residents by providing education materials and offering musical chats and concerts.

Statistical Data	2011	2012	2013
Concerts audience-Symphony experience	1,200	1,300	2,000
Concerts-Symphony experience	2	2	2
Lectures, conferences and camps on natural resources	25	40	40
PEDCO educational Concerts	1	2	4
PEDCO lectures audience - students	1,255	3,500	4,000
Students participating in concerts-Symphony experience	225	240	300
Symphony Orchestra concert season	47	48	46
Symphony concert audience	56,000	57,600	55,200

Statistical data is information provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 budget formulation process.

Customers

The general public

It encourages, administers, coordinates and implements the following programs: (1) The Casals Festival - an international event that presents Puerto Rico's musical excellence at international levels; (2) The Pablo Casals Museum - preserves the great master Casals' legacy through The Casals Festival, The Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra and The Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music; (3) Ibero-American Arts Festival (FIA, Spanish acronym) - presents productions that emphasize Puerto Rico's and the America's cultural inheritance; (4) The American Youth Symphonic Orchestra Festival (FOSJA, Spanish acronym) - a festival/camp that brings together young Puerto Rican musicians (15 to 25 years old) with their counterparts from Central and South America, the Caribbean and the United States for three weeks of intense pedagogical work and presentations.

Statistical Data	2011	2012	2013
Casals Festival Concerts	14	12	12
Casals Festival audience	9,582	7,500	8,000
FOSJA Audience	0	2,000	3,000
FOSJA Concerts	0	2	3
Iberoamerican Festival audience	2,047	3,000	4,000
Iberoamerican Festival concerts	6	6	8
Local and foreign students (FOSJA)	0	60	90
Museum visitors	12,541	9,000	10,000

Statistical data is information provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 budget formulation process.

Customers

The general public

Program Description

Manages the following programs: the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra Corporation, the Stage Music Arts Corporation, and the Social Music Program. It administers the financial aid funds; and receives and distributes public funds requested by the San Juan Opera Company and the San Juan Ballet.

Customers

The Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra Corporation, the Stage Music Arts Corporation, and the Social Music Program.

The Social-Music Programs and the Marching Band Program (PMB) main objective is to use of music as a catalytic agent for social transformation and to improve the quality of life's of children living in economically disadvantaged communities. PMB offers the participants the opportunity to learn to play a musical instrument in a marching band through an individualized and group learning curriculum. The program's objective is to have them join their community's marching band and the program's band.

Statistical Data	2011	2012	2013
Communities in general	10	20	25
Educational Centers	2	4	5
Public housing projects benefited	3	7	8
Specials communities benefited	0	4	5
students attended	135	201	325

Statistical data is information provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 budget formulation process.

Note: The Youth Orchestra Program was transferred to the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music on February 28, 2010 in compliance with the Governor's platform to consolidate programs with similar missions. To give continuity to our mission of social transformation, the Marching Band Program was created on March 1, 2010.

Customers

Children from ages 6 to 18 or up to 21 for individuals continuing with post- secondary studies.

The proposed consolidated budget for Fiscal Year 2012-2013 is $8,525,000. This amount includes $5,570,000 from the Joint Resolution-General Fund, $1,775,000 from the Special Appropriations-General Fund, and $1,180,000 in Revenues from Internal Sources.

Operational expenses reflect a decrease of $482,000 when compared to funds assigned in fiscal year 2011-2012 due to the loss of non-recurring funds for the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra Corporation and the Stage Music Arts Corporation and thanks to the implementation of an early retirement incentive program.

Resources from the Joint Resolution General Fund will be used for operational expenses and to continue developing the art of music and stage. In addition, $1,680,000 from the Special Appropriations fund for operational expenses and $95,000 for the Opera Theatre, Inc. is included.

Revenues from Internal Sources are generated from the sales of tickets to stage music and symphony orchestra, presentations and state, federal and foundation proposals. These resources will be used for payroll and operational expenses.

SUMMARY OF AVAILABLE RESOURCES