[ti:Music Teacher in Boston Offers Life Lessons to Young People]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:Education Report]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is the VOA Special English
[00:02.83]Education Report.
[00:04.84]Twenty-five-year-old
[00:06.76]Rick Aggeler says
[00:08.07]he discovered early
[00:09.56]in life that music is magic.
[00:12.67]RICK AGGELER: "Music made me
[00:13.67]feel like anything was possible."
[00:15.10]At the age of seven,
[00:16.59]a medical condition required him
[00:19.70]to have a brain operation.
[00:21.63]It also prevented him
[00:24.12]from playing sports.
[00:25.55]So his mother suggested that
[00:27.98]he learn to play drums instead.
[00:30.65]RICK AGGELER: "I started playing
[00:31.58]drums with Ronit Glick.
[00:32.70]She was my elementary teacher.
[00:33.82] I remember just the joy
[00:35.19]it brought to me.
[00:36.12]It was my favorite thing.
[00:36.93]sixth grade was a new school
[00:37.99]to me and I had a hard time kind
[00:40.54]of getting along with all the kids.
[00:42.22]And Ms. Glick just took me in
[00:43.28]and I had so much fun at the program.
[00:45.46]It just felt great all the time."
[00:47.45]Rick Aggeler graduated
[00:49.06]from the Berklee College of Music
[00:51.61]in Boston, Massachusetts,
[00:53.48]in two thousand seven.
[00:55.10]While there, he volunteered
[00:57.77]as a music teacher at a youth center
[01:00.82]in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.
[01:03.80]He helped create a small music club
[01:07.79]within the center.
[01:08.97]The Music Clubhouse
[01:11.27]at the Blue Hill Boys
[01:13.32]and Girls Club quickly grew.
[01:15.31]Young people come to the Music Clubhouse
[01:18.92]after school and during summer break.
[01:21.78]The club provides a safe environment
[01:25.02]to learn to play instruments
[01:27.38]and to perform together in bands.
[01:30.18]The club even has its own recording studio.
[01:33.97](MUSIC-"Super Hero")
[01:46.54]The club has released two albums.
[01:49.52]"Super Hero" is one of the songs
[01:52.20]from the second album, "Because of You."
[01:55.18]Fourteen-year-old Javon Martin
[01:58.48]performs under the name Yung Fresh.
[02:01.53]He joined the Music Clubhouse
[02:03.71]three years ago.
[02:05.20]YUNG FRESH: "It has impacted my life
[02:06.44]in a big way because I never thought
[02:08.81]I would be doing this.
[02:09.99]We now give shows. I'm on the radio.
[02:12.60]People are actually starting
[02:14.84]to see me as like an artist."
[02:16.22](MUSIC: "Blue Hill Shuffle")
[02:27.79]Ten-year-old Akheylah Hunter
[02:30.03]joined the club last year
[02:31.71]but did not play an instrument.
[02:33.76]Now, she plays piano
[02:35.94]and sings in a band.
[02:37.50]What she likes best,
[02:39.36]she says, is performing.
[02:41.42]AKHEYLAH HUNTER: "We performed
[02:42.10]in different places like
[02:43.66]at Berklee College of Music.
[02:46.02]We go on trips, like we went
[02:48.51]to the House of Blues and we went
[02:50.62]on stage and we performed,
[02:52.61]and it was very fun."
[02:54.04]The Music Clubhouse
[02:55.91]opened three years ago
[02:57.53]and has served almost
[02:59.58]five hundred young people.
[03:01.20]Rick Aggeler says preparing
[03:04.56]and performing is good for them.
[03:07.36]RICK AGGELER: "I can see
[03:08.66]what it does for them,
[03:09.72]and it just develops confidence.
[03:11.46]It's also an escape.
[03:12.58]A big problem we have
[03:14.63]in the neighborhood is obviously gangs,
[03:15.81]and family dynamics.
[03:17.81]And we have a lot of challenges.
[03:19.62]We can have those conversations
[03:21.50]and then they can write, too.
[03:22.69]They can rap about it
[03:23.81]and kind of let it out a little bit."
[03:25.55]Rick Aggeler says
[03:33.01]he is happy but not surprised
[03:35.56]by the results of the Music Clubhouse
[03:38.74]at the Blue Hill Boys and Girls Club.
[03:41.60]RICK AGGELER: "As much fun
[03:42.59]as I do have drumming and performing live,
[03:44.46]it's definitely more rewarding
[03:46.20]and more fun, watching
[03:47.38]these kids grow up and develop."
[03:48.44]And that's the VOA Special English
[03:51.36]Education Report.
[03:52.42]I'm Steve Ember.
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