Donations to help students make music in ALAS Project at Cesar Chevez Academy
Forty students in third through fifth grade will have an opportunity to join the Advanced Learning and Strings (ALAS) Project at Cesar Chavez Academy. Nora Moroun of the Detroit International Bridge Company presented a $4,000 check to Cesar Chavez Academy on May 4 to help fund the project. The ALAS Project is a joint initiative between Wayne State University’s Strings Project and Cesar Chavez Academy in Detroit. The program will introduce string instrumentation and classical music to schoolchildren in southwest Detroit. The overwhelming majority of these schoolchildren have not been introduced to a formal music education because of social economic status and/or the lack of performing arts venues in their local community. ALAS is scheduled to begin in June 2011 with 40 students. The program will run for five weeks with two sections of twenty students. The first section will have classes beginning at 12:30 p.m. and ending at 1:30 p.m. The second session would begin at 1:30 p.m. and end at 2:30 p.m. Classes will be taught by a trained Wayne State University student on each Tuesday and Thursday for a period of five weeks. Students in the program will be offered a free lunch before the start of classes. The students will learn the fundamentals of violin, theory, sheet music, notes, and some music history. Children in the program will be selected on a first come first serve basis with special attention given to an equal number of boys and girls in the program. Students will be assessed at the end of the five-week period to measure gains in mathematics. Researchers have concluded a link between music and higher order thinking skills such as mathematics, science and writing. At the end of the project, the 40 children will hold a concert. The location will be at either Wayne State University or on the campus of Cesar Chavez Academy. WSU is committed to admitting these students into the Fall ’11 and Winter ’12 Strings Project on the campus of the University. The Detroit International Bridge Co., based in Warren, Mich., owns and operates the Ambassador Bridge. The bridge is the busiest international border crossing in North America, with about 4.2 million cars and 2.3 million trucks using the bridge in 2009. Disclaimer: Article submitters are solely responsible for the content of their articles. ArtiLib can't be held liable for the contents of the articles. Report Abuse | Browse By Category |
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