Songwriting for Social Justice
AMPLIFYING VOICES
Composed by PS 32K 4th Grade Students
The Metropolitan Opera Guild's in-school residency programs are designed to support integrated arts education within the general classroom. This means that while our Teaching Artists are there to teach students about music, singing, and writing and performing songs, etc., that we are simultaneously collaborating with classroom teachers to connect to their students' general studies. This past year at P.S. 32 in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, 4th Grade students worked with Teaching Artist Megan McCormick to study the words of world-changers. Click to watch the feature to read and listen to the lyrics and original melody created by the students.
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Megan McCormick, Soprano
Megan McCormick is a music educator, entertainer, composer, and administrator, known for her high energy performances on stage and in the classroom. A recent Summa Cum Laude graduate of Tufts University with a double major in Music and Community Health, Megan has continued her pursuit of the arts and education post-graduation as a teaching artist and administrator for the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the assistant director for the New York Youth Symphony's Musical Theater Songwriting program, and as the assistant director of Creative Arts Theater Program. Outside of the classroom, Megan can be found performing with her band, Hatless in Public. Besides her passion for education, composing, and performing, Megan is also an aspiring professional circus performer.
