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STEP IN THE MEDIA
Project STEP MAKES FRONT PAGE OF BOSTON GLOBE
 Njioma Grevious (center) and Oluwdamilola Oluwadara practiced for their performance in Symphony Hall yesterday as part of ProjectSTEP. The program, which was established to prepare blacks and Latinos for the classical music profession with intense and comprehensive study, was celebrating its 25th anniversary.
Feature Article in Boston Globe, Sunday, June 17, City Weekly Section
Project STEP in the City Weekly section of The Boston Sunday Globe June 17, 2007
THE BOSTON GLOBE: HELPING YOUNGSTERS REACH A HIGH NOTE
Music training program turns 25
By Billy Baker, Globe Correspondent | June 17, 2007
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NPR:
PROJECT TRAINS YOUNG MINORITY MUSICIANS
Interview heard on NPR June 8, 2007 with Andrea Shea, Tristin Flores,
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NEWSFLASH: STEP ON NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO'S HERE AND NOW - 12 Noon, January 15th, 90.9 FM in Boston area. The January 15th radio broadcast of Here and Now, found on most NPR stations, features Project STEP's senior cellist Tony Rymer, along with Artistic Director William Thomas and a few alumni.
 Tony Rymer was the soloist in four concerts with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra over Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend. He played the Haydn Concerto for Cello in C major, and the Sunday night performance was reviewed.
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Bay State Banner
May 18, 2006
Tony Rymer knows firsthand that performing at the level of a Project STEP (String Training and Education Program for children of color) student requires countless hours of practice, dedication, passion, and above all else, a deep love for music.
Rymer, a 16-year old Dorchester resident, exemplifies all of those qualities, as do many of his friends in the Project STEP program, which held its Annual Spring Recital May 14 in the Higginson Room at Symphony Hall. The recital featured solo performances by students ages 6 to 17.
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The Boston Globe
Friday, February 10, 2006
CLASSICAL NOTES
by Richard Dyer/Globe Staff
STEP-ping up
Another outstanding local organization for youth, Project STEP, made a proud showing at a benefit organized in its honor by the chamber-music ensemble Winsor Music last Sunday afternoon in Old West Church. Project STEP is a string training program for young African American and Hispanic musicians who might not otherwise have access to the world of classical music; it is jointly sponsored by the BSO, Boston University, and New England Conservatory.
Winsor Music, which is under the direction of oboist Peggy Pearson, puts together an annual benefit in which Project STEP members perform with professional musicians from Winsor and special guests. Sunday afternoon, STEP violist Barbara Vante and STEP cellist Tony Rymer played movements of solo Bach and joined Pearson and Winsor for chamber music by Beethoven and Haydn.
Younger STEP players -- Danielle Lennox-Heichman, violin, and Monique Smith, viola -- also joined a guest from Philips Academy, Kevin Olusola, cello, and Project STEP board member Randall Hiller for a string quartet that backed up Robert Honeysucker in the spirituals "Calvary" and "Let's Have a Union."
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