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Celebrating 100 years of community music

Luis Navarro and Roger Cawdette at the Community Music Center of Boston. Each week, around 5,500 students participate. Luis Navarro and Roger Cawdette at the Community Music Center of Boston. Each week, around 5,500 students participate. (Community Music Center of Boston)
By David Weininger
Globe Correspondent / September 4, 2009

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The music began in a pair of settlement houses in 1910. Within those institutions, the Community Music Center of Boston initially offered education and a sense of community to recent immigrants. Since 1971, the center has been housed at the Boston Center for the Arts in the South End, but its mission has remained consistent: to provide music instruction to ... (Full article: 786 words)

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