The Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced a new project aimed at unifying the different El Sistema-like education programs across the United States. Together with the Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado, the Bard College in upstate New York, the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Mass., and Venezuela’s FundaMusical, L.A. Philh is creating a national platform for youth orchestras. The three-year project will consist of regional orchestra camps in 2016 and a national festival in 2017. Participation in the camps will be free for students.