Help me give my students a professional keyboard and stand for our performances!
$1,446 goal
This project expired on May 24, 2020.
This project expired on May 24, 2020.
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
Students at my school are much like other high school students. They are embarking on a journey of self-discovery and defining their self-identity. I believe music has a large role to play in defining that culture for them, and so I believe it is my role as a music teacher to cultivate a better understanding of the art form that they so readily consume and draw social lines and boundaries with.
Music in Chicago, like many other urban areas, is an art form that defines cultures, down to the neighborhoods.
Whether it is traditional regional music of culture, the pulsing beats of electronic house music, the intense fire and passion of jazz music, or the emergent violence of drill music, students are consuming music on a daily basis with greater availability than ever before.
I see my role as providing them opportunities to create new music and music that reflects a variety of influences, taking positives from different musics and acknowledging negatives. Allowing students more opportunities and instruments is the essential key to the opportunity being created.
My Project
Now that we have guitars, electric bass, drum set, vocals and keyboards, our ensemble is ready for the next step—a synthesizer to recreate all the electronic sounds from current music.
A synthesizer will expand the range of music we can successfully perform in school and out of school.
Students often want to learn songs that are created in the studio with electronic sounds not created by the acoustic instruments we have available. By obtaining a synthesizer, we will be able to play real sounds and not just approximations.
Finally, as my students begin to advance their talents, a synthesizer will allow them additional opportunities in composing and creating music. As always I thank you for your generous support of our program!
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