Middletown String Concert Program Monday December 20

From the Elizabeth Swaim Middletown Schools String Program

Tonight, Dec. 20^th, at 7:00 p.m. at the Middletown High School Performing Art Center, students from the Elizabeth Swaim/Middletown Schools String Program will perform.  Teachers Pinar Gosterilsli, Colleen Weiner, Danny Solerno, Melissa Morgan, and Lauren Chambers, will lead the concert.

          
The String program began several years ago with a generous bequest from Elizabeth Swaim, a Rare Books Librarian at Wesleyan University. Her donation to the Middlesex County Community Foundation created the Arts Enhancement Fund which was the impetus for the string program and many others. The String Program started as an after-school program for elementary school students and has grown into a cooperative program with the Middletown School System. A string teacher was hired by the Middletown Board of Education to instruct the students as they entered Middle School and beyond. From the inception, the Middletown Board has provided venues and bussing for the after-school program. This cooperation between the Foundation and the Middletown Public Schools has served the students of town so well that there are now approximately 250 students studying strings in the Middletown Schools and the first real Orchestral Program in Middletown is a reality