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Manhattan School of Music has a long tradition of offering community
outreach concerts. In 1918, during its first season as a community
school, students performed in a District Music Concert series in
camps and hospitals during World War I. Each year since then, our
students have presented community service concerts, in senior centers,
hospitals, women's and children's centers and medical centers throughout
New York’s five boroughs.
Today, Manhattan School of Music’s community engagement and arts-in-education
program is comprehensive and multifaceted, using music through live
performances to educate schoolchildren to provide motivation and
inspiration to the elderly and sick, and to enhance the cultural
experiences of the New York City public. Since 1993, these programs
have offered Manhattan School of Music students the pedagogical
instruction and invaluable performance experience which will enable
them to become effective artist-educators and advocates. These programs
are as follows:
Music Heals shares the healing power of music as medicine.
This program brings inspirational performances to patients and seniors
who are unable to attend concerts on their own. Students perform
in interactive musical environments in hospitals, hospices, women’s
and children’s shelters, medical centers, and senior homes in New
York City. For many Manhattan School of Music musicians, this program
provides a valuable performing experience and the opportunity to
experience firsthand the powerful impact live music has on people.
Music Reaches is a series of concerts in public venues,
religious institutions, and workplaces. Performances have included
concerts at the New York Botanical Garden, the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, the World Financial Center Winter Garden, South Street Seaport,
the Riverside Church, Wave Hill, the New York Public Library, and
the nation’s White House. An honorarium is provided for each outreach
performer. For more information regarding participation, please
call community engagement director Robert Smith at ext. 4476.
Music Teaches. Manhattan School of Music's arts-in-education
program prepares students to be effective artist-educators through
pedagogical instruction and practical teaching experience in New
York City K–8 schools. The program provides semester-long
classroom residency programs in orchestral music, opera, musical
theater, and jazz. Manhattan School of Music students learn how
to teach basic music literacy, to create an aesthetic context for
music as an art form, and to integrate music into the curriculum
by creating links to learning in other subject areas. Many Manhattan
School of Music students are employed during the academic year to
instruct instrumental lessons or choral classes at partner schools.
Partner teachers are encouraged to download our opera, jazz, and
orchestra curriculum guides found below. These curriculum guides
can be used to explore both the musical and interdisciplinary content
of our programming. Each chapter contains a vocabulary list and
several activities that can be used as preparation and/or follow-up
to the Manhattan School of Music presentations. Many of the exercises
expand upon links to other areas of learning, such as writing, reading,
history, and geography.
Teacher Curriculum Guides for 2007–2008
(Please note: links to downloadable curriculum guides will be
updated regularly, usually within two weeks of the scheduled lesson.)
Fall 2007 Orchestra Residency Program:
Winter 2008 Opera Residency Program :
Spring 2008 Jazz Residency Program:
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