by Bridges Director, Betsy Ko After an exciting day of MeritFest performances on Thursday, Merit and Symphony Center staff woke up on Friday, May 1st and did it all over again. What a great way to end the week! Our second day of MeritFest 2009 featured performers from 28 Bridges sites who performed in one [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Strings'
How do you get to Symphony Center?
April 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · MeritFest
by Betsy Ko, Bridges Director At 10 AM on the first day of CPS’s spring break, approximately 40 students were neither sleeping in, nor playing video games. They were arriving at Merit’s home in the West Loop for a 2 hour rehearsal for MeritFest, our upcoming performance event at Symphony Center on April 30 and [...]
Tags:Beasley·CPS·Jackson·Kipling·LaSalle·Murray·PershingMagnet·Strings·StSabina
Merit’s Associate Board Members Go Back to School with Bridges
February 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Site Visits
by James Erwin, Merit Associate Board Chairman It is just amazing and fantastic to see how the Merit faculty interact with Bridges students. Today, I joined several members of the Associate Board on a visit to a strings class taught by Dan Golden at the Jackson Language Academy in University Village. This visit was one [...]
Tags:AssociateBoard·CPS·Jackson·Strings
Alegre Strings in action at Whittier School
January 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Site Visits
“Uno, dos, tres, cuatro……show me a perfect bow hold!!!!” encouraged Merit instructor Daniela Pardo. From the looks of this photo, you might think that Bridges has added fencing to its program offerings, but I actually snapped this shot as Daniela’s viola students at Whittier Elementary were competing to see which team could complete the most [...]
The Many Days of Bridges Holiday Concerts!
January 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Concerts, Stats
If only there had been 12 days of Bridges concerts, I would have had the best title ever for this post! All the same, Merit’s staff had a fun time getting out to as many Bridges concerts as we possibly could. We couldn’t help but smile as we heard spirited performances from our Bridges students [...]
