Depuis l’automne, deux groupes d’enfants, de Pointe-Saint-Charles et de Kahnawake, s’initient à la vie d’orchestre. Le projet, piloté par une enseignante de musique de l’école Face, vise… En savoir plus… Two groups of kids from Point St-Charles and Kahnawake were initiated into the life of orchestral music since the Fall of 2013. The project is … [Read more…]
Date: Monday June 10, 2013 Concert #1 Time: 4:00 pm St. Gabriel School Hall / 600 Dublin St., Montreal Concert #2 Time: 7:00 pm Turtle Island Theatre/ Kahnawake Admission: FREE On the program: Twinkle Variations; What’s in a Scale; Haydn’s Toy Symphony Featuring the students of the Viva! Sistema program: a QMEA initiative in their … [Read more…]
On Thursday March 28th, 2013 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm The Viva! Sistema kids from St. Gabriel School in Point St. Charles and from the Kahnawake Education Center in Kahnawake will have the opportunity to watch and listen to the FACE School String students play the composition that was created with the Viva! Sistema kids during … [Read more…]
The Canadian Music Educators’ Association/L’Association canadienne des musiciens éducateurs has explored the aims and goals, efficacy, and program delivery of the music education program known as El Sistema and hereby presents the following to summarize the CMEA/ACME’s current position. Headings include: What is El Sistema? CMEA/ACME Position Implementation of El Sistema CMEA support for El … [Read more…]
El Sistema, a movement that uses musical group instruction as a mean to affect social change in children and youth, is implemented in two Quebec communities for the first time. “Music…has the power of forming the character and should, therefore, be introduced into the education of the young.” – Aristotle On October 22, 2012, the … [Read more…]