The Fineshriber Family Foundation has given two grants to the Culver City Education Foundation.
The first grant is for over $36,000, and demonstrates The Fineshriber Family Foundation’s continuing commitment to the Symphonic Jazz Orchestra program in our elementary schools.
This program introduces youngsters to a variety of musical elements, styles, forms, and instruments.
The Symphonic Jazz Orchestra is in it’s sixth year at Culver City Unified School District and includes students in the first through third grades. This year kindergarten classes were added to the program.
The second grant will fund the purchase of nearly 80 new musical instruments at Culver City Middle School and High School.
This grant award of more than $56,000 will have an enormous positive impact on our students by making it possible for all students to learn to play instruments and to perform in the schools’ many musical ensembles.
These two generous grants will give an enormous boost to CCUSD’s music program.
The presentation on Tuesday evening included the high school’s AVPA Flute Ensemble’s (Melanie Cappoli, Emma Mandzuck, Beverly, Li, Lilly Liu and Marlee Blackwell, Student Director) rendition of Sheep May Safely Graze by J.S. Bach.