The sixth Read­ing in Key con­cert se­ries re­turns to the Na­tion­al Li­brary (au­dio-vi­su­al room) on Ju­ly 1 to 2.

De­signed to cel­e­brate the pow­er of mu­sic and lit­er­a­cy in build­ing self con­fi­dence, dis­ci­pline, so­cial-emo­tion­al skills and in­tel­lect in our youth, the se­ries be­gins with four stu­dent con­certs cre­at­ed to de­vel­op per­for­mance skills in novice mu­si­cians, and ends with three All Star con­certs that will fea­ture the Holis­tic Mu­sic School, award win­ning Big Band, and mer­it and dis­tinc­tion As­so­ci­at­ed Board of the Roy­al Schools of Mu­sic (ABRSM) cer­tifi­cate soloists.

Launched in the au­dio-vi­su­al room of the Na­tion­al Li­brary on Valen­tine's Day 2004 by Earl Lovelace, Lynette Comis­siong, Broth­er Re­sis­tance and Atak­lan, Holis­tic Mu­sic School's Read­ing in Key pro­gramme has grown sig­nif­i­cant­ly over the past sev­en years. Many of the stu­dents who orig­i­nal­ly de­buted on Read­ing in Key stages, play­ing four and eight mea­sures of mu­sic in 2004, have ex­celled at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Mu­sic Fes­ti­val and ABRSM prac­ti­cal ex­am­i­na­tions on pi­ano, gui­tar, wood­wind, brass, per­cus­sion and voice.

Re­flect­ing on mu­sic ed­u­ca­tion in the T&T, Dr Pa­tri­cia Dar­d­aine-Ragguet, di­rec­tor of Holis­tic Mu­sic School, com­ment­ed: "Mu­sic stu­dents of yes­ter­year were con­sid­ered nerds. "To­day, we are ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a re­nais­sance in mu­sic and mu­sic stu­dents now have the abil­i­ty to make their com­mu­ni­ties "rock" through a va­ri­ety of mu­si­cal gen­res and in­stru­ments." The con­certs are ex­pect­ed to en­ter­tain and in­spire fam­i­ly au­di­ences of all ages, and the All Star con­cert pro­gramme will in­clude sev­er­al gen­res of mu­sic from, clas­si­cal to rock, pop, ca­lyp­so, reg­gae, R&B and jazz.

Dates and Time

• Stu­dent Con­cert 1 Ju­ly 1 at 4 pm.

• Stu­dent Con­cert 2 Ju­ly 1 at 5.30 pm.

• Stu­dent Con­cert 3 Ju­ly 2 at 10.30 am.

• Stu­dent Con­cert 4 Ju­ly 2 at 1.30 pm.

• All Star Con­cert 1 Ju­ly 2 at 3.00 pm.

• All Star Con­cert 2 Ju­ly 2 at 4.30 pm.

• All Star Con­cert 3 Ju­ly 2 at 6.30 pm.

• For fur­ther in­for­ma­tion call 621-0428 or 621-1659.