UpBeat Fall Session Begins September 11th!
Accepting new students for our fall session! Pre-register here: https://upbeatnyc.org/register/
Accepting new students for our fall session! Pre-register here: https://upbeatnyc.org/register/
UpBeat will be holding summer classes for current students from July 10th-21st.
UpBeat NYC students will present their final concert of the spring session this Friday, June 16th! Come enjoy performances by our Children's Orchestra, Youth Orchestra and Jazz and Latin Big Band including the music of Anton Arensky, Count Basie, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Antonin Dvorak, Duke Ellington, Chano Pozo, Tito Puente, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert and Sergio Siaba.
WHERE: Metropolitan College of NY (149th Street and Brook Ave)
WHEN: Friday, June 16th, 5:30pm
Where: Metropolitan College of New York 463 E. 149th, Bronx, NY
Come in from the heat and join us in celebrating our Choirs, Drum Line, Beginner Ensembles and Children's Orchestra as they present the music they've worked so hard on this semester!
WHERE: The St. Jerome School, 222 Alexander Ave
WHEN: Tuesday, June 13th, 5:30pm
Where: St. Jerome School 222 Alexander Avenue, Bronx, NY
Sunday, June 11 at 5 PM - 7 PM
Online: Students $10 | General $25
At the door: Students $20 | General $35
bit.ly/raiseyourhand2017
https://www.facebook.com/events/1225706477556361
RAISE YOUR HAND draws attention to the school-to-prison-pipeline: the increasingly widespread trend of pushing children of color out of schools and into the penal and criminal justice systems.
With students from
Corona Youth Music Project (Nucleo Corona)
UpBeat NYC
WHIN Music Project
YOSL from the Orchestra of St. Luke's
Manhattan Girls Chorus
Partners
Black Women's Blueprint
Center for Constitutional Rights
Museum of Impact
Featuring appearances by
Antonio Hendrickson from Lead By Example & Reverse The Trend
Ruffin Prentiss
Keynote: The Bobcats from the reForm Project
Roderick Cox, conductor
Ashley Jackson, harpist
Kelly Hall-Tompkins, concertmaster
Terrance McKnight, artistic director
Performing works by Le Chevalier de St-Georges, Teresa Carreño, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, George Walker, and a world premiere by Evan Williams.
Visit the link below to learn more and purchase your tickets today.
bit.ly/raiseyourhand2017
Where: Great Hall at Cooper Union 7 E 7th St, New York, New York 10003