Third St. Music School carols way through LES
BY TEQUILA MINSKY
All were bundled many layers
thick, against a frigid Thursday
evening. “Sing for the Season”
with Third Street Music School Settlement
brought out dozens of children
and parents and adults — students
at the school to celebrate the time of
year.
Holding their 22-page caroling
booklet in mittened hands, the seven
destination stops were mapped on
its cover. And many of the songsters,
in their other hand, held jingle bells
to keep the rhythm of the songs.
Singers circled Union Square caroling
at Con-Ed headquarters, Barnes
& Noble, and the west side of Union
Square Park. They even picked up a
few singers along the way.
Matthew Stewart, the school’s assistant
director of production, kept
the melodic party moving along,
leading the pack with jingle bells in
hand.
At the next stop, firemen of Hook
& Ladder 13 on E. 13th delighted,
and even joined in the Christmas
renditions, until a fire call interrupted
the mini-concert and propelled
the firemen into action. (Turned
out, they barely made it out of the
firehouse and stopped; it was a false
alarm!)
Carolers from the Third Street Music School Settlment made a stop at
Hook & Ladder 13 firehouse on E. 13th St.
The roving Christmas minstrels
entered TD Bank on 3rd Avenue for
a longer stint of songs, rewarded by
PHOTO BY TEQUILA MINSKY
green-striped candy canes and elfin
hats. Then, stopping at Veselka’s,
singers were rewarded with hot
chocolate. Dinosaur Hill, the toy
store next door, was the last stop
before heading back to the music
school on E. 11th Street for cookies.
Third Street Music School Settlement
has been at its present location
for 40 years as part of its 124-year
history. Originally founded as a settlement
house in Mariner’s Temple
on the Lower East Side, the school
moved to 3rd Street in 1903, giving
it the name.
The last move in 1974 brought
the school to 11th Street. Annually,
the school serves 5,000 students
through its personal and group lessons
in music and dance, and its
school partnership program.
The Dreidel Song was the only
Chanukah song in the booklet’s collection.
The caroling repertoire included:
The Christmas Song, Deck the
Halls, Do you Hear What I Hear?
Frosty the Snowman, Have Yourself
a Merry Little Christmas, Holly
Jolly Christmas, Jingle Bells, Jolly
Old St. Nicholas, Joy to the World,
Let it Snow, Rudolph the Red-Nosed
Reindeer, Santa Claus is Coming
to Town, Silent Night, Twelve Days
of Christmas, Up on a House Top,
Silver Bells, We Wish You a Merry
Christmas, Winter Wonderland, and
Feliz Navidad.
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