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Atlanta Music Project gains steam
The room at Coan Middle School seems to expand and shiver with the booming sound, as Asia Latimore moves the bow across the strings of her bass violin. “Now what went wrong there?” asks her […]
AMP Supporters Raise $21,000 to Launch AMPlify!
A short time ago the marvelous supporters of the Atlanta Music Project were offered the opportunity to come together to help launch AMPlify, a new choral program. The campaign was wildly publicized, being featured in […]
AMP Students Perform at Elevate
Yesterday was an amazing afternoon. The City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs invited a small group of AMP students to perform at “Elevate” on Broad Street in Downtown Atlanta on October 27, 2012. The street festival […]
Atlanta Music Project, which trains needy children, to start choral program in Mechanicsville
Just south of downtown Atlanta lies the neighborhood known as Mechanicsville. Established as a mostly working-class neighborhood in the late 19th century, it has fallen on harder times. A 2009 report on City-Data.com said that it had […]
Program helps kids learn music, stay in school
Fox 5 Atlanta features AMPlify Fundraiser. With tight local school budgets, music education programs keep getting cut. But one after school program has been filling the gap by providing two hours of intense music lessons […]
First Pitch!
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but there’s a new player on the team. We recently announced my new and improved relationship with the Atlanta Music Project as the Director of AMPlify, the choral program […]
Help Launch AMPlify!
This fall, AMP will expand to launch AMPlify, the all-choral program of the Atlanta Music Project! AMPlify will give 50 elementary school students in Atlanta’s Mechanicsville neighborhood the opportunity to: Be a part of an intense after-school […]
AMP Starts Year Three
Do you remember where we were two years ago? I certainly do. We didn’t have a site, or students or even a program. All we had was an unwavering belief that intense music education could […]
Good luck Elizabeth!
Two summers ago AMP Advisory Board member, Dr. Marilyn Seelman, and I were conducting interviews for the position of Atlanta Music Project Violin Teaching Artist. This was our first time filling the position and we […]
It’s Coming…
There is more than one way to tip an epidemic, in other words. Epidemics are a function of the people who transmit infectious agents, the infectious agent itself, and the environment in which the infectious […]
AMP students perform with Roger Waters
On June 13, 2012, Atlanta Music Project students took a break from their orchestral instruments for a different kind of concert: a live performance with Roger Waters, the former bassist of Pink Floyd! The students […]
A chat with … Dantes Rameau
His Atlanta Music Project features intense education for at-risk kids Dantes Rameau is co-founder and executive director of the Atlanta Music Project: Music for Social Change, which brings music education to at-risk children throughout Atlanta. […]
Diverse creative programs provide alternatives for at-risk, inner-city youth
Stanford Thompson is on a mission. He has dedicated himself to making it normal for a parent to say, “I want my kid to carry a violin after school,” every year. “Most people do not […]
Waldorf School cellists raise money for AMP
I love getting unsolicited phone calls that go something like this: “Good morning Dantes, I have a check for the Atlanta Music Project.” I know it’s gonna be a good day when that happens. This […]
Immersed in El Sistema: My experience in Venezuela
What a trip. You may know this already, but Venezuela is truly awe-inspiring. The sessions and readings we experienced as Fellows prepared us well – and then the trip itself catapulted us into another dimension! […]