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East Orange Teen Awarded Four-Year, Full-Tuition Berklee City Music
BOSTON, August 23, 2011 – The Berklee City Music program at Berklee College of Music awarded 16 young musicians a total of $2 million in full-tuition scholarships to support four years of study at the college. Six of the recipients were from Berklee City Music Network sites around the country, the other 10 were from Boston. All of the recipients attended Berklee's Five-Week Summer Performance Program on City Music Summer Scholarships. They are expected to begin classes this fall. Among the recipients of the Berklee City Music College Scholarship was saxophonist and bassist Darian Bravo of East Orange. Bravo is a graduate of the Cicley Tyson School of Performing and Fine Arts and is also a Student of the NJPAC Jazz For Teens Program that works in collaboration with the Berklee City Music Network at the Rutgers University T.E.E.M. Gateway/Cobblestone Records partner site in Newark. (Full Press Release )
(Photo Courtesy of Berklee City Music) From left: J. Curtis Warner, Jr., executive director of Berklee City Music; Berklee President Roger H. Brown; Darian Bravo; and Krystal Banfield, senior director for Berklee City Music. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rutgers 2010-11 tailgate anthems are here!!!!
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Berklee City Music Network
Rutgers TEEM Gateway - Proud member since 2008
The Berklee City Music Network is a consortium of community organizations across the United States committed to delivering high-quality contemporary music instruction to underserved youth. The network is designed to demonstrate and promote the life-changing role that a contemporary music education plays in the lives of these students.
Member sites plug into a virtual network that gives them instant access to Berklee's online music resources. The Berklee PulseTM music method, which teaches music theory, ear training, and performance, is based on a library of popular R&B, rock, hip-hop, and jazz songs. Webcasting and videoconferencing technologies provide face-to-face interaction between Berklee City Music Network students at member sites and faculty and students at Berklee's Boston campus.
Membership in the Network is growing and strong applications are being received on a daily basis, attesting to a movement shared by groups of music educators across the country that appreciate the value that a contemporary music education can bring to a young person's quality of life. Member organizations meet criteria that includes a commitment to providing opportunities and means of creating social value with music resources for an underserved youth audience; a clearly articulated commitment to contemporary music education; they are well established and favorably regarded in their community; and their program facilities are well maintained and suitable for delivering a high quality music education in a safe environment. Learn more about our current membership by clicking here: Network Members
CeaseFire Allstars
WHO ARE THE CEASEFIRE ALLSTARS? 
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Volume 2.0 coming Fall 2011!
The CeaseFire Allstars are an extremely talented group of young professionals who believe in the power of Positive Hip Hop, R&B and Rap. This community group of over 100 participants have come together to voice their concerns and strong belief against gun violence. Through the partnership between T.E.E.M. Gateway and Cobblestone Records, youth are able to constructively voice their lyrics, beats and performances into a professionally recorded promotional compilation CD that they have collectively designed, developed and produced.
The project mission initiated with the partnership with the Rutgers Police Institute and the Newark Safer Cities Initiative, with the additional goals of:
- Increasing the awareness of the impact that gun violence has created
- Showing the community that young people are equally outraged by gun violence
- Utilizing the emotional and inspirational impact of positive music
- Providing an productive avenue for youth to speak out against gun violence
- Creating a community-based project that can be expanded to all youth who wish to participate
- Distributing the free promotional CD throughout the community, schools and faith-based organizations
This vocational music and education program is designed to engage students 14-21 in interactive hands-on activities that will introduce the participants to the careers and continuing education opportunities that exist in the music, recording, multimedia and entertainment industries. CeaseFire Allstars Website
