Welcome to Boston.
The Fidelity FutureStage program started in Boston in 2007. Working together with the Boston Pops and Community Music Center of Boston, the program offers symphony experiences and coaching to Boston-area public schools.
Kickoff of the 2010 National Music Program
Students from 16 different schools in 4 different cities across the country witnessed the launch of the 2010 Music Program. Four schools from the Boston area were selected to participate in the program, including: Boston Arts Academy, Boston Latin Academy, Cambridge Rindge and Latin, and Roland Hayes School of Music.
The event was hosted by Actor Dominic Monaghan and featured Actor Jamie Foxx in LA and Actress Joan Cusack in Chicago. Fidelity Investments surprised the 16 schools with a donation of $500,000 worth of new instruments.
Students win a chance to perform on stage at May 20 Boston Pops concert
Fidelity FutureStage and The Boston Pops conducted a city-wide search for Boston public high school musicians and vocalists to take part in Fidelity FutureStage at The Boston Pops. Four acts were selected to perform on stage before a live audience at the May 20, 2009 Boston Pops concert.The winning acts are:
- Chris Middleton (Boston Latin School)
- AnJalique Perry (Roland Hayes School of Music)
- Grieg Quartet: Tadesh Dow Inagaki, B. Kim, Allyn Hayes McCourt and Christopher Nguyen(Boston Latin School)
- Underground Trio: Gustavo Hernandez, Chris Juris and Max Ridley (Boston Arts Academy)
Fidelity donates $100,000 worth of new instruments as part of holiday ecard campaign
Fidelity FutureStage and The Boston Pops developed a holiday ecard campaign and for every ecard sent Fidelity Investments donated $1 worth of new instruments for students. As a result of this campaign, Fidelity is donating $100,000 worth of new instruments to students in underserved communities across the country, including $20,000 worth of instruments to students in Boston.
Fidelity FutureStage Night at The Pops
Throughout the year, Symphony Hall patrons signed the Fidelity FutureStage signature wall in support of music education. For every signature, Fidelity Investments donates another dollar for new instruments for students. Student ensembles from local Fidelity FutureStage schools performed pre-concert at Symphony Hall.
Fidelity donates new instruments to students
Fidelity, Maestro Keith Lockhart and Boston Pops musicians surprised more than 200 students of Edwards Middle School in Charlestown with a donation of 47 new instruments.
Boston area schools participating in this year's music program:
Boston Arts Academy
Boston Latin Academy
Cambridge Rindge and Latin
Roland Hayes Schools of Music
Fidelity FutureStage salutes its local partners, who help to make this program possible.
The Boston Pops Orchestra was founded in 1885 as a subsection of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, founded four years earlier. Keith Lockhart currently is in his fourteenth season as conductor of the Boston Pops and was named the 20th conductor in February 1995. The Boston Pops, "America's Orchestra," performs for an audience of nearly 900,000 people annually in Boston, across the country, and around the world, and reaches millions more through its recordings and television broadcasts.
Community Music Center of Boston was founded in 1910 and focuses on delivering exceptional music classes and experiences at their location in Boston's South End and at public schools and community organizations. For 30 years, CMCB has supported the Boston public schools, bringing CMCB's exceptional faculty into city classrooms. Today, CMCB serves 4,000 students in nearly 25 schools each week.
First Night, Inc., is a private, nonprofit organization that produces the landmark New Year's Eve celebration and conducts the First Night Neighborhood Network, a community outreach and arts education program that directly serves hundreds of children and families in Boston each year. Since 1976, the celebration has grown from a small arts event centered on the Boston Common to a major citywide festival of the arts with related year-round community programming.
