Now is the time to join the Grand Teton Music Festival in supporting local school music programs! In a proclamation endorsing a month-long celebration of music education this March, Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal encourages teachers, parents, students, and all citizens of the state of Wyoming to do the same. Throughout March, national Music In Our Schools Month®, the Grand Teton Music Festival challenges the Jackson Hole community to share in the experience of music and music education by actively participating in the Festival's educational events and concerts. Through programs like Music In The Schools (Festival musicians visit local classrooms) and Tune-UP! (in-school instrumental instruction), the Festival reaches thousands of area young people each year. Ticket sales from the Grand Teton Music Festival's winter concert series help to support these, and the Festival's other, music
education initiatives.
These winter concerts play a vital role in the Festival's in-school education programs, bringing visiting artists into local classrooms for week-long residencies, including master classes, private instrumental instruction, and full-school assemblies. It's likely your child will be visited this month!
Learn about how music prepares kids for life! The cultural and social benefits of school-based music programs are long known - music provides an outlet for creativity, self-expression, encourages teamwork, reinforces communication skills, and sustains our cultural heritage . But there is now scientific evidence, both behavioral and neurophysiological, that music does so much more. It generates neural connections, uniquely enhancing higher brain functions that enable a child to reason abstractly in subjects such as math, physics, and engineering. Kids involved in school music programs even score higher on standardized tests. Most important of all, music is simply worth knowing! Great information is already out there: starting Thursday, March 6, you can read all about the benefits of music education, and link to current research, on the Festival's new website at http://www.gtmf.org/. Or go to http://www.supportmusic.com/
For more information about the Festival's education and outreach programming, contact Liz Kintz at 307-733-3050 x109.
Tickets are available for purchase through the Grand Teton Music Festival ticket office at
307-733-1128 or online at http://www.gtmf.org/. All sales are final. No refunds or exchanges.
GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL
4015 W Lake Creek Drive #1
Wilson, WY 83014
t 307.733.3050 x107
f 307.739.9043
amanda@gtmf.org
http://www.gtmf.org/
