Find out what the Central California Youth Symphony thinks about fundraising with TNT Fireworks…
Who: Central California Youth Symphony
Where: Fresno County
How much: $15,000.00
Benefit: Sending students overseas for concerts and musical education
A youth in foster care could not afford the “extravagance” of playing a musical instrument until he became part of the Central California Youth Symphony. Not only was he able to travel overseas, but he also played an instrument throughout high school and joined the marching band in college.
Another student played percussion in the symphony, joined tow overseas trips and eventually formed a noted Ska band called the Checkmates. Today he is a music producer in Los Angeles. Yet another student, who went on the first trip ever sponsored by the symphony, is today the Concert Master for the University of the Pacific Symphony.
These are just a few of the tales that fundraiser Vaughn Melcher and conductor Sheldon Schlesinger like to reminisce about when they consider the impact the Central California Youth Symphony has had on dozens of youth. Every two years, the symphony travels oversease to places like China, France, Belgium, Northern Italy, Austria, Germany, and the Czech Republic, to name a few. Fireworks sales underwrite the cost of travel, instruments and much more.
“A lot of schools have had to cut band and orchestra from their programs because of funding problems,” Melcher sayes. “It would certainly put a big hole in the budgets of a lot of youth groups if we didn’t have fireworks to count on.”
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