Concordia Conservatory Celebrates Black History Month with a Virtual Installment of its Musical Adventures at the Library Series
Concordia Conservatory Celebrates Black History Month with a Virtual Installment of its Musical Adventures at the Library Series
Bronxville, NY — Concordia Conservatory’s Musical Adventures at the Library series will reach an expanded virtual audience with a special program celebrating Black History Month.
The Musical Adventures at the Library series, made possible by a grant from The Community Fund of Bronxville, Eastchester and Tuckahoe, normally brings Conservatory faculty into the Bronxville, Eastchester and Tuckahoe Public Libraries and district classrooms to enrich children’s learning experience with music and literature. Amid current restrictions, the program is now recorded, with a link provided to libraries and school districts for distribution in conjunction with a hybrid learning curriculum.
“Last year’s COVID shutdown gave us an opportunity to rethink delivery of this beloved program.” said Kathleen Suss, Executive Director of Concordia Conservatory. “As a result, we’re reaching far more children than ever with engaging musical storytelling.”
Debuting Monday, February 22, the special Black History Month program features a performance of Concordia College student Claudia Hope reading Double Bass Blues by Andrea J. Loney, and Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña, accompanied by Conservatory faculty Bob Gingery on the double bass. The program can be accessed here: https://youtu.be/v8vUMaaRPX0
Concordia Conservatory is a preeminent center for music education in Westchester and Fairfield Counties. The Conservatory is a welcoming community where children and adults find lifelong inspiration and joy through learning, performing, listening to, and participating with others in music. www.concordiaconservatory.org
About Concordia Conservatory
Concordia Conservatory, a preeminent center for music education in Westchester County, is a welcoming community where children and adults find lifelong inspiration and joy through learning, performing, listening to, and participating with others in music. Concordia Conservatory offers top quality music programs for early childhood, youth, adults and seniors. The Conservatory’s mission is to inspire, instruct, and enrich lives through music, offering excellence in education and performance. Concordia Conservatory is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt educational institution. Since 1977, Concordia Conservatory has offered music programs for early childhood, youth, and adults. Financial aid and active community outreach partnerships provide access for all. Concordia Conservatory is governed by a 17-member board of directors.
The mission of Concordia Conservatory is to inspire, instruct, and enrich lives through music, offering excellence in education and performance. Concordia Conservatory, an accredited member of the National Guild of Community Arts Education, offers top-quality music programs for early childhood, youth and adults and seniors in Bronxville, New York. With a faculty of highly educated, working musicians and artists, Concordia Conservatory has developed a rich array of programming. Offerings include private instruction in all instruments including voice, group and chamber music instruction, music theory and composition, musical theatre classes, an annual tuition-free community musical production, early childhood music classes, concert series, and camps, music and literature series at public libraries, an honors music program, classes, and music private instruction. Concordia Conservatory’s student body of over 1,500 is drawn from diverse surrounding communities that cover the gamut economically, from affluent Bronxville to impoverished Yonkers. Conservatory’s financial aid and active community outreach partnerships provide access for all, and the diverse faculty and student population represent over 20 countries. Currently over 400 students receive financial aid or full scholarships.