Classroom Cantatas

Past Classroom Cantatas Collaborations/Performances

Classroom Cantatas has also collaborated with Making Music Matter and the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum, a values, literacy, and writing program for 6th graders in the Boston Public Schools that reinforces the importance of courage in their own lives. 

A select number of Classroom Cantatas participants who took part in Courage Curriculum were invited to perform their courage-based cantatas at the high-profile Courage Curriculum Awards, and their cantatas were included in the widely-distributed book, The Courage of Boston's Children: Award-Winning Essays on Courage by Students in the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum.

Classroom Cantatas connects students with members of the local community, who are invited to attend their cantata performance, as well as to the city at large and other schools in the Boston Public School system. In sharing their personal stories of hope, sadness, or courage in face of adversity, children have the chance to be heard beyond the walls of their school. Each year, the children premiere their cantatas for each other and the public in performance venues across Boston.  Past performances have taken place at the New England Conservatory, the historic Shirley-Eustis House in Roxbury (with Mayor Menino in attendance!), Distler Hall at Tufts, the Huntington Avenue Y and the Museum of Science.