Third Street Music School Settlement

The [http://www.thirdstreetmusicschool.org/index.htm Third Street Music School Settlement] is the nation's oldest community music school. Based in New York City's historic Lower East Side, the Third Street Music School Settlement was founded in 1894 by Emilie Wagner, who believed that music could offer the impoverished immigrants of New York's Lower East Side some respite from their daily struggles [http://www.thirdstreetmusicschool.org/about.htm] .

Mission

It is the mission of the School to provide quality education in music and the arts, primarily to children of the Lower East Side, in an environment that nurtures achievement and creativity and offers to all who attend, regardless of artistic ability or economic circumstances, the opportunity to pursue their own personal development and enrich the quality of their lives [http://www.thirdstreetmusicschool.org/about_mission.htm] .

A Brief History

Programs

Young People's Programs
* Music [http://www.thirdstreetmusicschool.org/programs/music.htm]
* Dance [http://www.thirdstreetmusicschool.org/programs/dance.htm]
* Art [http://www.thirdstreetmusicschool.org/programs/art.htm]

Adult Programs [http://www.thirdstreetmusicschool.org/programs/adult.htm] (adult students from beginning through professional)

MILES (Music Instruction on the Lower East Side) [http://www.thirdstreetmusicschool.org/programs/miles.htm]

Third Street Music School Settlement partners with many public schools in Lower Manhattan to provide music instruction for their students. Each program is tailored to the needs of the individual school with the newest initiative teaching groups of late elementary and middle school students to play winds, brass and percussion instruments, forming school bands.

The children in Third Street's school partnerships have the chance to perform in concerts at least once a school year. The most interested students (ages 6 to 14) from these schools have the opportunity to pursue more individualized instruction in small group classes at Third Street.

Partner schools 2006-07:

• Bank Street Head Start• Bard High School Early College• Children's Liberation Day Care• Earth School (PS 364)• East Side Community High School• East Village Community School (PS 315)• Girl's Preparatory Charter School of NYC• MS 131• Neighborhood School (PS 363)• NYC School for Dance (HS 442)• New York Foundling (PS 401 Hospital Schools)• PS 19• PS/MS 34• PS 130• PS/MS 188 (Island School)• Technology, Arts & Sciences Studios (TASS - M301)

Notable Faculty & Students - Past & Present

*David Mannes
*Julius Rudel
*Robert Ward
*Ingrid Michaelson
*Sylvia Rabinof of Benno Rabinof and Sylvia Rabinof

Noteable Advisory Board Members

*Imani Winds

Third Street Music School Settlement in the News & Media

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