For the last few years, it has been an annual tradition for Carson’s band to give a December performance in the food court of the Ford City Shopping Mall. Alas, this year, meetings at the office kept me from going, but Bridges staff member Alicia Poot headed out to hear the concert and even caught [...]
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Merit band students from Carson take their tunes to the mall!
December 12, 2008 · No Comments · Concerts
Merit choral students at Reavis Elementary start the day singing!
December 4, 2008 · No Comments · Site Visits
reavis This is Merit’s second year of choral programming at Reavis Elementary located right at the intersection point of the Hyde Park, Kenwood and Bridgeport communities (Michael Johnson, Principal). Merit instructor Edward Beard rehearses with the students two mornings a week for 40 minutes before the start of the academic day. When I arrived this [...]
Greene Elementary kicks off Merit’s offsite holiday concert season!
November 27, 2008 · 1 Comment · Concerts
‘Tis officially the season of winter holiday concerts at our many Bridges sites. In almost all cases, these performances are our students’ first opportunity to show off what they have learned in music class since the start of the school year. I enjoyed the first of these concerts yesterday at Greene Elementary in the McKinley [...]
Merit at Greene Elementary
November 19, 2008 · No Comments · Site Visits
Today I visited one of Merit’s general music classes at Nathaniel Greene Elementary School. Led by principal Gloria Espinosa, Greene is located in the McKinley Park community and has partnered with Merit for over ten years. Merit faculty member Dominique Louis is at Greene every day and works with twenty-two classrooms of children over the [...]
