For the summer of 2010, we're continuing our ground-breaking curriculum that has been specifically designed to not only meet CSC coach's expectations but the players as well.
"AS YOU LIKE IT" by Shakespeare
This is a unique summer immersion experience offering quality instruction in a brand-new music production facility. In addition group lessons, musicianship, theory classes and guest clinicians; The ensembles will then record two full length songs at The Space's recording studio. Each ensemble will perform outside the Mambo Grill in downtown Lowell during the "Lowell Folk Festival"on July 23.
The Massachusetts Mill at the confluence of the Merrimack and Concord Rivers History of Lowell, Massachusetts Founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles, Lowell is located along the rapids of the Merrimack River, 25 miles northwest of Boston in what was once the farming community of East Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The so-called Boston Associates, including Nathan Appleton and Patrick Tracy Jackson of the Boston Manufacturing Company, named the new mill town after their visionary leader, Francis Cabot Lowell, who had died five years before its 1823 incorporation. As Lowell's population grew, it acquired more land from neighboring towns, and diversified into a full-fledged urban center. Many of the men who comprised the labor force for constructing the canals and factories had immigrated from Ireland, escaping the poverty and Potato Famines of the 1830s and 1840s. The mill workers, young single women called Mill Girls, generally came from the farm families of New England. By the 1850s Lowell had the largest industrial complex in the United States. The textile industry wove cotton produced in the South. In 1860, there were more cotton spindles in Lowell than in all eleven states combined that would form the Confederacy. The city continued to thrive as a major industrial center during the 19th century, attracting more migrant workers and immigrants to its mills. Next were the Catholic Germans, then a large influx of French Canadians during the 1870s and 1880s.