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S’Cool Sounds
Music in the Classroom:
A Hands-on Experience
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The S’Cool Sounds music program provides school children in grades K through 5 with life-long advantages for learning, growing, and living by teaching them to play a musical instrument in the classroom.
Learning a musical instrument draws on and nourishes multiple life skills, helping to develop the whole child as a focused, disciplined and creative individual. In partnership with the school and its teachers, the program fosters music making as a natural expression of each child and the school community. S’Cool Sounds promotes intellectual growth, attentiveness to detail, habits of cooperation, and confidence through its program of practical, hands-on instruction. Using music from widely diverse traditions and time periods, the program expands students’ appreciation of music as a universal activity that transcends cultural, religious, and geographical boundaries. Unique to the S’Cool Sounds program is an immediate emphasis on the classroom as an ensemble, fostering communication skills, teamwork, mutual appreciation and support—the same skills required to build a successful classroom, school, and community.
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S'COOL SOUNDS is this year vitally engaged in four New York City schools: the Ella Baker School on E.67th Street, the Ampark School in the Bronx, the East Village Community School, and the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music. and is poised to expand into more with your help. We welcome your generous donation. You may make an unrestricted gift to S’Cool Sounds, or a targeted gift to a particular school where the program is active by filling in the school’s name in the comment area on the checkout page. Thank you for your support!
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ADVISORY BOARD
Anthony Elitcher
New York Continuo Collective
Peter L.
Faber
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Karen Geer
Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music
Christine
Gummere
Sinfonia
New York
Barbara Zinn Krieger
Making Books Sing
Richard A.
Pace
Oratorio Society of New York
Rita
Putnam
New York State Council on the Arts
Wendy Steiner
University of Pennsylvania
LEADERSHIP
Nina Stern, Artistic
Director and Recorder Instructor
Gene Murrow,
Executive Director,
Gotham Early Music Scene
Paul Ross, Operations Manager,
Gotham
Early Music Scene
| WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“This
music helps me express my feelings. I thought I couldn’t play the
recorder. Now I know I can, and if I can play the recorder I can play
almost any instrument. And I can learn other things, too.”
Khalif,
age 8, Ella Baker School
"Our collaboration with Nina Stern
has brought the halls and building alive at the Ella Baker School with
exquisite music – music that inspires and soars and reaches deep into
our hearts and into every corner of our school."
Laura Garcia
Principal, The Ella Baker School
“Nina Stern breaks down
complex melodies to ensure a role in the ensemble for every child.
Refusing to give in to the stereotype of the twice-weekly arts class in
which kids just relax, she demands excellence.”
Valerie Strauss,
The Washington Post
“Music education should be aimed at
making music become a part of a child’s life, and that is what Nina is
doing.”
Libby Larsen, American composer
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