"An Instrument of Unity"
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| Table of Contents Index Los Angeles Music Week LAMW 2007 LAMW 2006 Los Angeles Music Week Events World Festival of Sacred Music Press Conference City Council Day Opening Ceremony Children's Day Closing Ceremony Awards Luncheon Introduction
About LAMW Honorees Music Links Calendar of Events Commemorative Caches Souvenir Journal Events Highlights Music History Synopsis Through the Years Historical Highlights A Musical Panorama Contact Sign our Guestbook Educational Links: THE MUSIC CLASSROOM http://inspiringthots.net http://inspiringword.net/ Jazz & Blues History Black History Index Black History Classical Music Musicology Musicological Transitions Kids Domain Music History Asian History & Culture Caribbean Music Latin History & Culture Gospel and Southern Gospel Folk & Country Music Classical Music and History    |
LOS
ANGELES
MUSIC WEEK
November 30 to December 7, 2008 To donate instruments to the fifteen council district schools and the five county supervisory schools through Los Angeles Music Week, which LAMW annually services, please email melamw@earthlink.net or dial 310-670-6898. Your contributions are greatly appreciated and recognized. Please help students receive instruments and music education through your Ralphs Club Card purchases on behalf of Los Angeles Music Week, a 501c(3) non-profit organization that is now in its fourteenth year of operation. See our Honorees Page for those who have been blessed through this service. Through your purchases, 4% will be donated to Los Angeles Music Week to raise funds for the children. Please go to the Ralph Community Contribution website, http://www.ralphs.com/ccprogram.htm. Click on Participant Sign Up, type in our NPO number 82218, your name, address and city, so that Ralphs can process this information. With your help, the injustices of inequitable arts education can continue to be addressed. Your cooperation and timely response are dearly appreciated. Thank you so much!    The Artistic Mission of Los Angeles Music Week Fulfilling the motto, "An Instrument of Unity, " Los Angeles Music Week serves all the residents of the Greater Los Angeles area, including its surrounding basins. The performances, projects and events impact people of diverse cultures, ages, ethnicities, religions and socioeconomic groups. The scope of events offers Angelenos opportunities to hear musical genres that they have never experienced and invites them to explore venues in various parts of the city. The educational activities of LAMW are enabled in elementary, middle and high schools by donatng instruments, music instruction, mentoring, field trips and/or school supplies. LAMW takes an active role in Los Angeles' cultural tourism industry by offering a wide variety of performances that showcase the city's musical heritage. Due to the drastic
cutbacks in music curricula in schools over the past decade, the
majority
of the city's children know little or nothing about the rich musical
heritage
of the city they live in and have no scope of the musical genres
available
to them, from classical to jazz to ethnic musics. Many children
have
very few musical skills or lack the resources for acquiring them.
LAMW's program elements, such as field trips, in-school presentations
and
opportunities to interface with living musical legends, broaden musical
understanding and have created musical bridges between the communities
over the past twelve years. The sponsors and
partnerships
listed on this page dutifully enable LAMW to accomplish the
educational
goals and facilitate field trips for the school children in order to
link
music with other aspects of culture and learning. The children
derive
so much pride and motivation from learning how many famous musicians
from
all aspects of the music business grew up in their own
communities.
Face-to-face dialogue with successful living legends gives them the
impetus
to explore their own God-given talents and capabilities, inspiring them
to learn. The Children's Day field trips open up a world of
amazing wonder and possibility. Will you place an Ad in our Souvenir
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Fernando Pullum Director of Performing Arts Inner City Education Foundation (ICEF) Fernando Pullum has been an
educator in South Los Angeles for 20 years. He has been the recipient
of many awards including the National Music Teacher of the Year Award.
He has been a featured guest on Oprah, the subject of a two page
article that appeared in the Los Angeles Times, and celebrated by the
Los Angeles Jazz Society. Fernando received both his B.A. and M.A. from
the University of Michigan. Under his tutelage Fernando’s students have
performed at the Playboy Jazz Festival several times, recorded CD’s,
and performed with Jackson Browne, Lionel Hampton, Wynton Marsalis,
Buddy Collette, James Carter, Gerald Albright, Al Jarreau, and Stevie
Wonder.
As a performer, Fernando has played or recorded with Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Lalo Schifrin, Etta James, Gerald Wilson, Placido Domingo, Gladys Knight, George Duke, Montel Jordan, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Dust Brothers, Fishbone, and a host of others. He can also be heard on movie scores or shows that include: Good Burger, The Dead Pool, Mission Impossible, Tales from the Crypt, Just the Ticket, Uncle Buck, Over the Top, Earth Star Voyager, and Very Bad Things. |
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Los
Angeles Music Week
has Rare
Commemorative
Limited Edition Postal Caches:
Sets of the previous Celebrations
Now on Sale for
$5.00
a set!
Orders
based on
availability.
Place orders by mailing requests to:
Contact:
Margie
Evans, Executive Director
Los Angeles Music Week, Inc.
Email: melamw@earthlink.net
Post Office Box 451146
Los Angeles, CA 90045-8511
Phone: (310) 670-6898
Fax: (310) 670-6908
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