Los Angeles Jewish Symphony
Dr. Noreen Green, Artistic Director

Education Department
Ilizabeth Gilbert, Education Director

 

     The LAJS wishes to thank the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts for their support of our concerts and/or educational programming.
   

     We would also like to thank our sponsors Bruce Langer of Langers Juice for providing juice for all participating students and to Nick Rail Music for providing the wonderful Instrument Petting Zoo at the event, and Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary for providing printing services and the Hispanic Jewish Women's Task Force for helping procure transportation for the schools and for providing volunteers at the event.
 

     

 

     The Los Angeles Jewish Symphony's exciting education concert: "Patchwork of Cultures: The Sephardic-Latino Connection took place this year on April 16th, at the beautiful Adat Ari El Synagogue in Valley Village, CA.  The concert served as the culmination for a series of classroom workshops led by LAJS teaching artists in each of the participating schools.

     This project builds on a very successful Sephardic Music unit that has reached over 5,000 students over the past eight years. 

     This program is taught by Los Angeles Jewish Symphony musicians who visit 4th and 5th grade student classrooms in both public schools and private Jewish day schools. Students learn about the descendants of Spain, focusing on the similarities between Sephardic Jews and the Latino community by exploring their music and cultural backgrounds. 

     This program integrates music directly into the students' history lessons. As part of the program each student created a work of art to parallel the music .

     During the course of the program, the public school students and Jewish day school students interacted with each other on a website specifically designed for this program (lajs.homestead.com). Ultimately, they all got to meet each at the concert, where student artwork was on display for all to see. Together they danced the Mexican Hat Dance and sang along to the music and enjoyed the live orchestra. 

     This program was partially funded by a prestigious grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Participating Schools were:
Adat Ari-El, Beth Hillel Day School, Columbus Avenue Elementary, Erwin Elementary, Kadima Hebrew Academy, Kittridge Elementary, Oxnard Elementary, Sinai Akiba Academy, Temple Israel of Hollywood, Toluca Lake Elementary, Valerio Street Elementary

 This program was endorsed by:
Howard L. Berman, Member of Congress 28th District
Zev Yaroslavsky, Chairman of the Board Supervisor
3rd District
Wendy Greuel, Councilmember 2nd District
Senator Alex Padilla, 20th District

To view photos and articles from our education program, please click link below.
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Click Here to view education page from previous website.
 

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