MIAMI, August 26, 2020 / PRNewswire / – Members of the South Florida Youth Symphony (SFYS.net), one of the country’s leading youth music organizations, were excited in early March 2020 as they prepared for an eight-day exchange to Uruguay and Argentina at the end of the month. For many talented young musicians, with an average age of 15 and the maximum of disadvantaged families in some of Miami’s poorest neighborhoods, this would be the first time they travel by plane or out of the country.
Then came the pandemic.
The trip, of course, had to be cancelled, forcing the 55-year-old nonprofit, which recently won gold medals in two foreign music competitions in Washington, D.C. in 2017 and Prague in 2019, plus a 2018 functionality. at Carnegie Hall – to cancel weekly practices and upgrade them with virtual PracticeArray and Zoom summer camp.
ALORS the same news has arrived.
The company that coordinated the vacation to South America refused to fully refund the holiday fee, keeping $800 consistent with the user ($2,700 consistent with the student) for “expenses”.
“Many of those parents, whose children are with SFYS on a full or partial scholarship, have had to work hard and save to send their children to South America,” said Marjorie Hahn, executive and artistic director of SFYS, who has been in the organization ever since. its beginnings through his stepfather Carmen Nappo in 1964. “Now those same parents, many of whom are unemployed because of COVID, are suffering and the $800 is important to buy groceries and pay rent.”
To alleviate the situation, SFYS, which recently offered 3 virtual concerts with academics from the combined symphony orchestras, the Miami Dade College Orchestra and academics from Spain and Panama, has introduced a Go Fund Me (https://gf.me/u/yttfkv) page to parents, who lost a total of $30,000 due to cancellation.
“At a time when there is so much unrest and misery in our country, it is vital that diverse and inclusive organizations like ours continue to paint with neglected communities, because our music program benefits all families and children,” said Hahn, who takes pride in the fact that no student has been rejected through SFYS because of the inability to pay. “Our music education program, concerned teachers and diversity have been the cornerstone of the South Florida Youth Symphony for more than five decades. That’s why we seek to link our net paintings to parents and children. In short, they want that money. Survive. . “
For more information or to donate directly to the South Florida Youth Symphony Parent Fund, https://gf.me/u/yttfkv, email [email protected] or call 305.238.2729.
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