WISH LIST $100: music materials for 1 student for an entire year; $1,000: seed funding for 2 new programs; $5,000: summer music camp scholarships for 10 kids.

With members of the National Symphony Orchestra on the Board, these folks know talent when they hear it. But talent doesn’t always mean opportunity for students who cannot afford private music lessons. MusicLink offers scholarships to budding musicians recommended by their music teachers – and private lessons mean the opportunity to excel. MusicLink supports over 60 students in Virginia and Maryland with volunteer regional coordinators, the donation of instruments, sheet music, practice facilities, and scholarships to summer music camp. A new partnership with the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Northeast (Catalogue ‘03) will bring small group lessons in keyboard, percussion, and guitar (jazz, blues, pop) to 50 elementary and middle school students. The Atlas will provide use of its facility, marketing, and publicity for recitals. In the next few years, MusicLink hopes to engage 200 students from 12 additional Northeast DC elementary schools, a middle school, and two junior highs in the Atlas program, and expand to serve Southeast and Southwest DC students. Is the next Wynton Marsalis among them?

Dr Joanne Haroutounian, President & Executive Director 1043 N McKinley Road Arlington, VA 22205 703-534-9490 musiclinkfoundation.org