To All Sponsors of Four Strings in Collaboration with YOFES:
We are now in our fourth year of offering a fantastic progran and your generosity is by no means forgotten. Your gifts have helped the organization to grow and has also helped to sponsor many students to develop skills necessary to become professional artists in a competitive field of music. Many of our students, this past summer started to develop their own voice on the violin, viola and cello with focused instruction and this year we are so excited to include Harp instruction. Our mission still remains the same. Our hope is to provide the best instruction for a new wave of string players.
We have a long road ahead of us and we look forward to making a positive difference with your continued support. This past year we expanded our summer program from two weeks to a four week program as well as added a one week session in April, helping to prepare children for their upcoming exams for Project Step and The New England Conservatory Pre-College end of the year exams. Because of the current state of our economy and the change of position and status of the Music Director of Four Strings, this year, we have decided to no longer offer the April program and save all of our contributions to go towards a new three week summer program. This year more than ever, our families will need your help in continuing to provide the best education possible for their children, and our students during this summer academy.
Our Exciting news is that we have just collaborated with YOFES. . Also we have added a new Harp instructor, Amanda Romano. Please feel free to browse our website and see her write-up as we look forward to our upcoming events! We will soon be able to provide digital media to support Four Strings in its efforts via the web as well as our efforts to expand or become inclusive in a non-profit organization. We also expanded from being a program that accommodated 16 students to a program that this year will now accommodated 60 students and a faculty that grew in number from 8 to 12 persons. This means that we will need more support to meet the demands of students, teachers as well as our other expenses that accrue during the pre and post season of the festival. We hope that the program will be able to grow in this way so that the students may have a longer period to develope and the teachers will be rewarded for their fine efforts. We hope that you, our sponsors will be able to help in this effort of keeping this music program alive and well.
We apologize that our program book is not in color as we are trying to reduce costs all around. We have cut back in unnecessary spending and hope that you, our wonderful sponsors and contributors will understand. Your generous gifts and support are deeply appreciated and remembered by our children and faculty because without you none of this would have been possible. Thank you and God Bless you in this Blessed Season.
Sincerely,
Mariana Green-Hill, Music Director
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