The Ensemble

At Kids 4 Harmony learning is based in ensemble experience. The first day a child joins Kids 4 Harmony, he/she becomes part of an ensemble through group learning and practice, sectional learning and frequent performance.

The orchestra becomes a paradigm of community in which cooperation not competition is the norm, and all are striving for the same goal.

Casual Concerts are held monthly at each site to inform families about what their children are learning, encourage students to become comfortable in front of audiences, build community, and to illustrate the strength of the group as they perform as an ensemble.

An El Sistema Tradition and Guiding Principle

The North Adams Kids 4 Harmony musicians perform during their December Casual

Concert with a holiday flair!

The Pittsfield Kids 4 Harmony musicians perform at Reid Middle School

Holiday Concert.

February, 2016

Creating community through music with your continuing support

Berkshire Children & Families

Board of Directors

Ursula Ehret-Dichter

Chair

Linda G. Conway

Vice-Chair

Glenn Allan

Treasurer

Christopher King

Assistant Treasurer

Carolyn Newberger

Corporate Clerk

Mark Parent

Past Chair

Raymond T. Kushi, Jr.

Past Chair & Treasurer

William Bean

Melanie Desmarais

Eric Lamoureaux

Harold Novick

J. Mark Peterman

Kids 4 Harmony

Advisory Committee

Co-Chairs

Ursula Ehret-Dichter

Eli Newberger, M.D.

Donna A. Bernstein

Ed Bride

Mark Churchill

Linda G. Conway

Howard “Jake” Eberwein

Shirley Edgerton

Ronald Feldman

Susan Lombard

Jane Mayer

Carolyn Newberger

J. Mark Peterman

Rep. “Smitty” Pignatelli

Penny Pincus

Mike Roylance

Elizabeth T. Selkowitz

Carole Siegel

Dorothy Altman Weber

Tracy Wilson

Carolyn Mower Burns, LICSW

President and CEO

Alicia Stevenson

Artistic Director

MARCH 4 Casual Concert

Morningside Community School Pittsfield, 5:15 PM

MARCH 5 The Berkshire Symphony Family Concert and North Adams Kids 4

Harmony Chapin Hall, Williams College

1 PM Activities 2 PM Concert

MARCH 9 Williamstown Community Chest

Annual Meeting North Adams Kids 4 Harmony

Williams Inn, 5:30 PM

MARCH 23 Kimball Farms, Lenox

Pittsfield Kids 4 Harmony 3:30 Reception 4:30 Concert

For more information please contact Erin Sullivan at 413-448-8281 ext 36

www.berkshirechildren.org

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“With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.”

~Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema Musician and Conductor, Los Angeles Philharmonic

“Music has to be recognized as an…agent

of social development in the highest

sense, because it transmits the highest

values - solidarity, harmony, mutual

compassion. And it has the ability to

unite an entire community and to express

sublime feelings.”

Jose Antonio Abreu, Founder, El Sistema