Give In-School Music Education to NYC Youth

With the fall semester underway, ETM’s partner school students have been hard at work learning new skills (and having fun!) in their music classes and ensembles. Your support has set these students up for a rewarding and successful year to come!

Students have had access to several exciting musical opportunities since you last heard from us. In early September, a group of partner school students performed for country stars Darius Rucker and Little Big Town at the Country Music Awards announcements in Times Square. Singing Rucker’s hit song “Wagon Wheel,” the students left their audience impressed and delighted by the performance.

With your help, ETM has expanded in-school programs this fall, reaching more students than ever with our core general music programs. We were also able to expand enrichment activities, and provide students with more ways to practice and enjoy making music. After-school choral ensembles for grades 4-5 and 7-8 are being offered in 28 of our partner schools, and band and orchestra ensembles in 18 schools. These activities give interested students a deeper experience of what it’s like to rehearse and perform as a group. Music teachers recruited students for the electives during September and October, and we’re looking forward to their debut performances this winter!

ETM’s partner school program has grown tremendously this school year. Your support has helped ETM to extend its reach to 20,000 students in the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens—an increase of 5,000 students from last year. Your commitment to children’s music education makes this kind of progress possible. So thank you! If you would like to visit one of our schools, to see a class or a concert, please just ask.

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With thanks,

The ETM Staff

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• Students perform at the CMA Awards announcements