From the Top, the organization best known for producing NPR and PBS broadcasts spotlighting young classical musicians, will showcase the work of teenagers participating in the first year of its Arts Leadership Program on January 21 at City Year Headquarters in Boston. The program is a pilot project of From the Top’s Center for the Development of Arts Leaders, which aims to prepare young musicians to implement change in their communities. During the program, 20 teens and four professional mentors each spent 20 hours a month designing and implementing projects at five Boston-area community partner sites. Among the projects were performance events and activities at the American Cancer Society; afterschool music instruction and chamber music instruction at schools in Brighton and Mattapan; music activities with assisted-living residents suffering from memory loss; and audience-building activities at the Roland Hayes School of Music in Roxbury. The program will begin recruiting the next class for its Arts Leadership Program in spring 2012; the consulting firm WolfBrown is also conducting an evaluation of the program with results to be released publicly in spring 2012.
Posted January 20, 2012
