Yesterday, at 4:00 pm, cellist David Alan Harrell from the Cleveland Orchestra, visited the Barnyard after school program in Village West. The Cleveland Orchestra is collaborating with Coconut Grove Cares to help bring music and culture to the children through the Orchestra's Learning Through Music curriculum.
This nationally recognized music program fosters the use of music and the arts to support general classroom learning in select schools and community centers through a combination of curriculum, resources, teacher professional development workshops, and classroom visits by members of the orchestra.
The Barnyard, which is the only after school community center to host members of the Cleveland Orchestra this month, features a curriculum of enrichment activities that includes music, acting, sports, art classes, computer classes and educational field trips. It serves as a safe supervised place for neighborhood children, and is an alternative to the streets and the crippling realities of unemployment and poverty.
"We are thrilled to have a musician of Mr. Harrell’s stature come and share his music with our kids,” says Sylvia Jordan, the managing director of The Barnyard. "It is a tremendous opportunity for the students to learn about classical music from a member of a very well-regarded orchestra. This will be an experience they might not be likely to have otherwise- and won’t be likely to forget.”
A beautiful Flickr slide show of yesterday's event may be seen here.
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