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RMAC has partnered with three arts
education programs, which are offered to our schools free of charge.
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The Riverside Symphony Music Memory Program:
Teaches children how to listen and respond to music critically and
intelligently and is designed for grades 3 through 6.
The Program includes creative presentations and
positive motivations specifically designed to enhance the development of
students’ social skills as well as their self-esteem and intellectual
capacity.
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NYC Opera Program:
City Opera’s Education programs
give students of all ages the tools to appreciate opera and its relationship
to the world in general as well as to their own experiences. Students are
introduced to such works as Portman’s The Little Prince, Donizetti’s
Don Pasquale, and Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Through RMAC’s
sponsorship the City Opera program is brought to our schools and, with the
help of a teaching artist, the students may then create their own opera.
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New York
City Center Dance Program:
Education
at New York City Center introduces students from
kindergarten to grade 12 to the performing arts through
dance and
musical theater performances as well as in-school performance workshops.
Using the NYC Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the
Arts, as well as the New York State Standards in the Arts, English
Language Arts
and Social
Studies, the Center’s Education Program allows
classroom
teachers
to draw on the styles, genres and cultures of a particular
work of art from the current New York City Center season.
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If your school would like to participate in any of these
programs please click here for more information.
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In the spring schools
participating in the Music Memory Program select five-member teams from
the 4th and 5th grades, with one member of each team
serving as captain. The teams then compete in the Citywide Finals where
they show off their expertise in identifying the titles of a number of
fragmented, musical compositions and the name of their composers.
Sometimes the fragment may consist of a single chord!
On Thursday, May 26th the
12 Annual Music memory Citywide finals were held at Skirball Center for
the Performing Arts, New York University. Twenty-one schools took part in
the competition including two schools from our (Rockaway) area: PS 114
under the direction of teacher Robin Levy and PS 47 under the direction of
teacher Kathy Ruggiero. The 4th and 5th grades of PS47 and the 4th grade
of PS114 each won a Silver Certificate. The 5th grade of PS114 won a
Gold Certificate. A heart-felt
congratulations to each and every student and their teachers. |
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