Italian Arias and Opera Scenes from La Boheme, Tosca, Elisir d’Amore, La Cenerentola, Rigoletto, Clemenza di Tito, and Le Nozze di Figaro. Performed by Professional Boston Opera Singers.

It just goes to show that you don’t have to be great to be just plain awesome. Please if there are any parents of this caliber who are interested in showing off their collective talents, I encourage you to make friends with NEMPAC.

Original for hilarious, embarrassing haircut comparison may be seen here.

In addition to performing, Duval is also an extremely passionate teacher. He was one of the primary viola/violin instructors at K.C. Strings Conservatory (KS), averaging up to forty private students per semester. Many of Duval’s students competed in regional and state solo competitions, receiving excellent ratings and accolades in the process. “Taking lessons from Alex was a very different experience from what I was used to. He was fresh, modern and entertaining without the dull monotony of most lesson teachers”- Durchelle McDaniel, violinist and former student.

Alex Duval currently performs with Boston New Music Initiative, Boston String Players and is a founding member of Animus Ensemble (www.animusensemble.com).

Section I- Tuesday’s 4:00- 4:40pm @ NEMPAC.  Instructor- Sherri Snow  

                    Ages 6 – 9 (this section is currently full for the winter quarter)

Section II- Tuesday’s 4:00- 4:40pm @ NEMPAC- Instructor- Rebecca Rapoport-Cole

                    Ages 9-12

Section III- Saturday’s 9:30am- 10:10am @ NEMPAC- Instructor- Sherri Snow

                   Ages 9 – 12

Honorable mention awards go to Lucy Rosenberg, Piano Student of Ben Xia and Elisabeth Abeyta, Piano Student of Ben Xia

No Class- Vacation Week February 24th

Fridays 4- 5 pm @ NEMPAC, Ages 7-12

$125 for 10 weeks OR $15 per drop-in class (No registration neccessary for drop-in class! Join us any week!)

Stage & Acting Director: Sherri Snow
Music Director: Alexandra Dietrich
Choreographer: Hilary Denison

Class Description:

Troupe members receive weekly music class, acting lessons, and choreography direction. Children learn to maintain freedom of expression and exercise their imagination while learning how to sing, dance & act with friends!  Performance held in December.

Schedule:

January 6th- First Class

(Performances will be scheduled in Spring, these are Optional and will be at local assisted living facilities.)

Rehearsals located at Boston Harbor Community Church.

To Register for Winter Session- Please email ssnow@nempacboston.org for a Registration Form and/or more information

Yeah, sure. These kids are cute, but NEMPAC kids play their own music!

The annual appeal from NEMPAC’s Executive Director, Becca Griffin:

Dear Neighbor,

At the end of each year, I like to step back from my daily activities, and reflect on all the things that NEMPAC has done during the past 12 months.  A few highlights:  We hosted our very first summer evening concert series on the Prado – free and open to everyone thanks to a very generous anonymous donation from one of your neighbors.  We offered daytime weekly interactive concerts and programs to kids throughout the summer – free to everyone with funding from Mayor Menino through the Boston ROCKS grant program.  We offered many free events on the Prado such as Pumpkin Painting, Opera Night, Jammin’ with Jeremy, and our Halloween Pizza Party with your donations, and with outside funding.  Our website got a facelift:  www.nempacboston.org by NEMPAC’s Board President, Matt Black, who generously donated his time and efforts to this project.  We celebrated our 10 year birthday at our Annual Spring Fling, and hosted our First Annual Hoot and Howl Halloween fundraising event – both with the help of several NEMPAC Board members, and with the support of numerous North End businesses who donated gift certificates, sporting tickets, or services for our silent auction.

We continue to grow our Private Music Instruction Program and our class offerings.  Our current class offerings include yoga, children’s music, Adult and Children’s Italian, MyGym, A Children’s Musical Theatre Workshop, Kids Rock Band, Adult Group Guitar, and a variety of adult one time lecture performances. We welcome 40 to 50 kids each and every school day at the adjacent Boston Public Eliot School, providing music and arts programming from 7:30am to 9:10am.  We continue to face paint, offer art activities, perform music, and volunteer at neighborhood events.  We continue to grow our enthusiasm, our programming, our number of borrowed spaces and our NEMPAC community.  We are able to do all that we do because we have an ever-growing group of committed, hardworking employees and volunteers making it all happen.  We use donated funds, space, time, instruments, and energies.  We have the support of you, our community.  I feel extremely lucky and appreciative to live and work in such a supportive neighborhood!  Thank you!

Like so many small community-based non-profits, our revenue falls short of our expenses.  Only 80% of our $200,000 annual operating budget is covered by tuition and fees.  Currently, NEMPAC has more than 250 students participating in its programs each week.  Over the past four years, this number has increased by 25% each year.  This growth requires us to continually seek out new and larger meeting spaces, equipment, materials and funds.

During this time of giving, I am asking for your financial support.  Please consider the role NEMPAC plays in this community, and what that is worth to you.  No donation is too large, or too small.

As an example of what your donation could provide:

•             Maestro:  $500 allows a scholarship student to study at NEMPAC for 10 months,
•             Symphony:  $250 covers time and materials for us to prepare and perform at a community event,
•             Quartet:  $100 purchases a gently used instrument for use in our programs,
•             Friends: $25-$100 purchases art supplies for our Eliot School program for one week.

On behalf of the children and families of our great neighborhood, thank you for your generous support of our wonderful community-based non-profit music and performing arts center.

Sincere Thanks, and Have a Wonderful Holiday Season,

Rebecca Griffin,
NEMPAC Executive Director

NEMPAC,
P.O. Box 130255, Boston, MA. 02113
Headquartered on The Prado in a George Robert White Fund Facility
www.nempacboston.org