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Soundscapes Carver End of Year Concert 
Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Crittenden Middle School Auditorium, 6158 Jefferson Ave., Newport News, VA

Soundscapes Downing-Gross End of Year Concert
Date: Friday, June 8, 2012 
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center, 2410 Wickham Ave., Newport News, VA
 
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Soundscapes is a non-profit, El Sistema-inspired, educational development organization teaching transformational life-skills to socio-economically disadvantaged youth in Virginia, using music study and ensemble performance.
 
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2008) — A Harvard-based study has found that children who study a musical instrument for at least three years outperform children with no instrumental training—not only in tests of auditory discrimination and finger dexterity (skills honed by the study of a musical instrument), but also on tests measuring verbal ability and visual pattern completion (skills not normally associated with music).The study, published October 29 in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, was led by Drs. Gottfried Schlaug and Ellen Winne.
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