Show You Care Spotlight: Harmony School of Music

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – A Cedar Rapids program is working to take away limitations for youngsters to take part in music packages.

The Concord College of Music launched in 2017, and serves primarily third- by means of sixth-grade college students within the Cedar Rapids space.

Jessica Altfillisch is the director on the Concord College of Music, which practices at Coe Faculty. The after-school program is totally free for college kids, eradicating what will be an costly value to buy a string instrument and sheet music. It’s modeled as a part of El Sistema, a worldwide motion working to impact social change by means of music for youngsters. It’s the primary of its type in Iowa.

“So the concept is breaking down all the social limitations that college students usually face when taking a look at collaborating in music,” Altfillisch mentioned.

A number of dozen college students obtained to point out off their exhausting work this previous week at their Winter Celebration Live performance.

“We name it a winter celebration as a result of it’s it’s a celebration of all the work the youngsters have accomplished, however additionally it is their likelihood to provide their music again to the neighborhood that’s supporting them,” Altfillisch mentioned.

Altfillisch and her crew aren’t simply constructing an orchestra. They’re additionally build up a neighborhood, by educating the significance of teamwork to their college students.

“We educate music classes, however an enormous a part of our curriculum or our philosophy is that all of us handle one another,” Altfillisch mentioned. “We encourage our college students to all the time assist one another in school. If you understand a be aware and your neighbor doesn’t know a be aware, then it’s your job to assist them be taught it.”

You could find out extra data on methods to help this system right here, and knowledge on methods to apply to enroll right here.

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