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Sing for Hope is thrilled to launch a new cultural collaboration with The Richard Tucker Music Foundation, creating special concerts at Mount Sinai Hospital featuring the young American opera singers supported by the “Tuckers,” as the prestigious American opera foundation is affectionately called.
What comes to mind when you think of community art? Perhaps the sculpture you pass on the way to work, or the community theatre group you joined as a kid. Maybe, if you live in New York, you envision the Sing for Hope Pianos, hand-painted by local artists and set on the streets and parks for any passer-by to play. Community art means something different to everyone, but what does it mean for communities themselves? Is there a palpable, even measurable effect that community art has in transforming the neighborhoods, towns, and cities where it resides?
Each year, the SING FOR HOPE GALA seeks to embody for our supporters the creativity and generosity that underscore our programs year-round. One way that we do…
UPDATE — GALA SUCCESS! (Article republished with permission from Broadway World) 2015 Sing for Hope Gala Featured Performer Jon Batiste photographed at a Sing for Hope…
This week, the streets of New York seem to be missing something. On Monday morning, the Sing for Hope Pianos that had been placed throughout the parks and public spaces of the five boroughs, and enjoyed by countless happy fingers, were loaded onto trucks and carted away. The air was still, because the music had stopped.
On a recent Wednesday night, 35 musicians, artists, actors, and dancers gathered in our colorful Midtown office. The occasion? National Volunteer Week, the perfect opportunity to celebrate the generous Volunteer Artists at the heart of Sing for Hope ™s programming. Limited as we were to our modestly-sized office, we couldn ™t invite all of the 3,000+ artists who have volunteered with Sing for Hope over the past ten years – so we brought together the most senior members of our current roster with the very newest, those who had their first volunteer experience in 2015. As I watched our veteran volunteers share anecdotes with enthusiastic newcomers, we reflected on just how much our volunteer force has grown and diversified over the past few years.
The word is out: when it comes to equipping young people for success, creative expression matters. Arts education may once have been dismissed as extra-curricular and frivolous–but experts now see it as a potent tool to foster broader academic achievement. Arts programming, research now demonstrates, boosts standardized test scores
DONATE TO PIANOS JUST ANNOUNCED! The Sing for Hope Pianos is a beloved public art installation that brings brightly colored pianos to the parks and…
By Michelle Femminella It’s no secret that volunteerism has a sizable impact on community wellbeing. Volunteers help protect the environment, provide food and shelter for…
In the music room at P94m@15, young students crowd around their school piano, ready to learn. But this is no ordinary instrument: its painted design of…