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Music
Music runs through every division, building from a toddler's first songs to serious ensemble playing. Each class has its own unique instrumentation, designed around the students in the room, and the goal is always the same: open your ears, grow your skills, and love making music.
Early Learning Center
Lower Division
In grades 1 to 3, students learn music in their target language, expanding their knowledge, training their ears, and building the collaboration that prepares them to select an instrument in grade 4. Assemblies play a central role here, as students share the songs and culture they've learned across the division. From grade 4, students choose an instrument and learn in a sectional model, building the identity of a player and coming together as a band.
Middle Grades
Ensembles of mixed instruments rehearse together and in sections, deepening literacy, confidence, and the skills of their instrument. Students compose original work and perform at winter and spring concerts and the school's annual and much anticipated Battle of the Bands.
Upper Grades
Students choose the repertoire and drive the rehearsals in instrumental and vocal workshops, exploring everything from R&B and Afropop to blues, jazz, and indie rock, with African and Afro-Caribbean drumming woven into the ensemble's rhythmic foundation. The most dedicated musicians audition for Advanced Music and Advanced Choir, which meet during Zero Block and become the school's representative ensembles.
The cornerstones of the music program are rhythm, student choice and abundant performance opportunities. We strive to learn through doing and playing, and seek to create community—both on campus and within the neighborhood. Performance Highlights
Winter and spring concerts
Seasonal showcases bring each division’s work to the stage, from first ensembles to the school’s most advanced players. Students often help select the songs they are most excited to learn, and our Head of Music and faculty build tailored arrangements that challenge each student on their instrument while strengthening the ensemble as a whole. These performances serve as meaningful culminations of months of listening, rehearsal, collaboration, and growth.
Beyond the concert stage
Music in the community
The Avenues Drama Program
Recent productions have included:
Willy Wonka Jr., Seussical the Musical Jr., and Pride and Prejudice, alongside student-led performances of original work.
Our drama program centers on and celebrates community. Every year, we give students the opportunity to take the lead and create their own performances, whether as writers, directors, actors or designers. Recent performances
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