March reminds us about the POWER of music.” “Music transcends time, and we know from the earliest day of mankind, music played a role in education, communication, and enjoyment.
This event gave students who might not otherwise have had the opportunity to visit the capital to perform for a large audience. This event expanded into one known as The Capital Experience, a program that included daily concerts by student bands, choruses, and orchestras throughout the Plaza from all over New York State. In 1980, the legislature of the State of New York later showed its support of this event by financing a weekend of music by the all-state band, orchestra, and chorus in the Convention Center in Albany. The forty-eighth (48th) annual event was originally formed in New York in 1973 as a single-day concert held at New York City’s Lincoln Center and was the first coalition that advocated support for music education programs throughout New York State. With a stroke of his pen, Governor Andrew Cuomo claimed March 2021 as Music In Our Schools Month in New York State.
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