{"id":63933,"date":"2018-11-28T14:36:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/?p=63933"},"modified":"2022-08-02T14:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T18:05:08","slug":"bu-today-feature-cfa-students-after-school-music-program-strikes-the-right-notes","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/news\/articles\/2018\/bu-today-feature-cfa-students-after-school-music-program-strikes-the-right-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Today feature: CFA Students\u2019 After-School Music Program Strikes the Right Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hannah Hooven (CFA’21) (from left), Eusung Choe (CFA’21), Billy Sheahan (CFA’22), and Emma Chrisman (CFA’20,’21) during a performance at the Boston After-School Music (BAM) program at Higginson-Lewis K-8 School in Roxbury.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This article was originally posted in BU Today on November 28, 2018.\u00a0By\u00a0Joel Brown. Photos by\u00a0Cydney Scott<\/em><\/p>\n

On a rainy November afternoon two School of Music trombonists begin to play an Oskar Blume duet in a school auditorium in Roxbury. The reactions of the 20 or so children sitting on the floor in front of them range from wide-eyed wonder to the kindergartner who clamps his hands over his ears and stage-whispers, \u201cIt\u2019s too loud!\u201d<\/p>\n

This is Boston After-School Music (BAM), a K-5 program recently created by three College of Fine Arts students to share their love of rhythm and melody with children who might not otherwise be exposed to music.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make a difference,\u201d says BAM cofounder Emma Chrisman (CFA\u201920,\u201921).<\/p>\n

The program is held every Monday at the Higginson-Lewis K-8 School, under the auspices of Dorchester\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Bird Street Community Center<\/a>. The school is one of several locations where Bird Street seeks to bridge the gap between school and home for children of working parents by providing before- and after-school activities. This is a low-income neighborhood, and the kids are all students of color, some with special needs.<\/p>\n

Like many urban public schools, Higginson-Lewis\u00a0<\/span>no longer has an instrumental music program<\/a>. The school is named for Boston Symphony Orchestra founder Henry L. Higginson (and 19th-century Roxbury politician George A. Lewis), an irony that is not lost on Chrisman and her BAM cofounders Hannah Hooven (CFA\u201921) and Isaac Boll (CFA\u201921).<\/p>\n

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This article was originally posted in BU Today on November 28, 2018.\u00a0By\u00a0Joel Brown. Photos by\u00a0Cydney Scott On a rainy November afternoon two School of Music trombonists begin to play an Oskar Blume duet in a school auditorium in Roxbury. The reactions of the 20 or so children sitting on the floor in front of them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6270,"featured_media":63929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[],"bu-publication":[192],"magazine-article-category":[],"magazine-topic":[],"news-article-category":[313],"news-topic":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/63933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/63933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88975,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/63933\/revisions\/88975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63933"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=63933"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article-category?post=63933"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=63933"},{"taxonomy":"news-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article-category?post=63933"},{"taxonomy":"news-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topic?post=63933"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=63933"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=63933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}