Since the Spring Semester of 2007 is now well underway, I thought I’d take this time to highlight some new relationships with schools and arts organizations being explored under the guise of the Music-in-Education Guided Internship Program. We have several guided interns pursuing teaching opportunities within the Boston Public School system.

With thanks to George Simpson, we are developing a relationship with the Roland Hayes School (a middle school in Roxbury, near Roxbury Community College), where two of our MIE Guided Interns (Kathryn Wigger & Amanda Romano) will be teaching group harp lessons and coaching a lap harp ensemble. The Roland Hayes School is Boston’s first public school for music. It also serves students from the Madison Park Vocational High School and other nearby schools. A collection of lap, lever, and pedal harps were donated to the Boston Public School system several years ago, and the Hayes School has kept them since; these harps will be the basis of the MIE Guided Internship.

Also, this semester, our partnership continues with the Boston Arts Academy! Haruka Horii, one of our graduate students in the MIE Concentration is back to teach jazz improvisation and is also coaching a jazz string ensemble.

Graduate vocalist Jessica Reed, of the NEC Opera Program, is using her MIE Guided Internship to start an after school choir club at the Hurley Elementary School. Jessica is also the recipient of a NEC Performance Outreach Fellowship.

Finally, this semester is also seeing a reinstatement of internships hosted by National Public Radio’s “From The Top” (FtT) radio show. Bianca Garcia, a FtT alum and current NEC grad student, is helping FtT to design its outreach component such that FtT’s young alums receive training for future artist-residency opportunities.

There are, as always, a number of Guided Interns working in the MIE Research Center … but since most of them are also Documentation Specialists (and thus, NewsBloggers), I figured I’d focus on students whose guided internships are off-campus.

- Randy

Randy Wong is Program Coordinator for the Center for Music-in-Education and Information Architect for the Music-in-Education National Consortium

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