VOA慢速英语2010年-Education Report - Music Teacher in Bo
时间:2019-01-12 作者:英语课 分类:2010年VOA慢速英语(十一)月
Twenty-five-year-old Rick Aggeler says he discovered early in life that music is magic.
RICK AGGELER: "Music made me feel like anything was possible."At the age of seven, a medical condition required him to have a brain operation. It also prevented him from playing sports. So his mother suggested that he learn to play drums instead.
RICK AGGELER: "I started playing drums with Ronit Glick. She was my elementary teacher. I remember just the joy it brought to me. It was my favorite thing. Sixth grade was a new school to me and I had a hard time kind of getting along with all the kids. And Ms. Glick just took me in and I had so much fun at the program. It just felt great all the time."Rick Aggeler graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, in two thousand seven. While there, he volunteered as a music teacher at a youth center in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.
He helped create a small music club within the center. The Music Clubhouse at the Blue Hill Boys and Girls Club quickly grew.
Younger members of Studio Heat performing at the release 1 party for the Music Clubhouse's second CD, "Because of You" Young people come to the Music Clubhouse after school and during summer break. The club provides a safe environment to learn to play instruments and to perform together in bands. The club even has its own recording 2 studio.
(MUSIC-“Super Hero”)The club has released 3 two albums. "Super Hero" is one of the songs from the second album, "Because of You."Fourteen-year-old Javon Martin performs under the name Yung Fresh. He joined the Music Clubhouse three years ago.
YUNG FRESH: "It has impacted 4 my life in a big way because I never thought I would be doing this. We now give shows. I'm on the radio. People are actually starting to see me as like an artist."(MUSIC: “Blue Hill Shuffle”)Ten-year-old Akheylah Hunter joined the club last year but did not play an instrument. Now, she plays piano and sings in a band. What she likes best, she says, is performing.
Yung Fresh in the studio, recording his own songs AKHEYLAH HUNTER: "We performed in different places like at Berklee College of Music. We go on trips, like we went to the House of Blues 5 and we went on stage and we performed, and it was very fun."The Music Clubhouse opened three years ago and has served almost five hundred young people. Rick Aggeler says preparing and performing is good for them.
RICK AGGELER: "I can see what it does for them, and it just develops confidence. It's also an escape. A big problem we have in the neighborhood is obviously 6 gangs 7, and family dynamics 8. And we have a lot of challenges. We can have those conversations and then they can write, too. They can rap 9 about it and kind of let it out a little bit."(MUSIC-“Wake Up”)Rick Aggeler says he is happy but not surprised by the results of the Music Clubhouse at the Blue Hill Boys and Girls Club.
RICK AGGELER: "As much fun as I do have drumming and performing live, it's definitely 10 more rewarding and more fun, watching these kids grow up and develop."And that's the VOA Special English Education Report. I'm Steve Ember.
- After my examination I had a feeling of release.考完试后我有如释重负之感。
- This medicine will give you release from pain.这药吃后会解除你的疼痛。
- How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间?
- I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
- He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
- With hindsight it is easy to say they should not have released him. 事后才说他们本不应该释放他,这倒容易。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers. 战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- The ground had been impacted by many people walking across it. 因为走的人多,地面被踏得坚实了。
- She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues.她在烟雾弥漫的酒吧深处唱着布鲁斯歌曲。
- He was in the blues on account of his failure in business.他因事业失败而意志消沉。
- Obviously they were putting him to a severe test.显然他们是在给他以严峻的考验。
- Obviously he was lying.显然他是在撒谎。
- Gangs of youths went on the rampage in the city yesterday. 成群结伙的年轻人昨天在城里横冲直撞。
- a vicious turf war between rival gangs of drug dealers 对立贩毒团伙之间的猛烈火并
- In order to succeed,you must master complicated knowledge of dynamics.要取得胜利,你必须掌握很复杂的动力学知识。
- Dynamics is a discipline that cannot be mastered without extensive practice.动力学是一门不做大量习题就不能掌握的学科。
- I heard a rap on the door.我听到有轻轻的敲门声。
- Today we are going to rap about relationships.今天我们要聊聊关系的问题。
- The team will definitely lose if he doesn't play.如果他不参加比赛,这个队肯定会输。
- I shall definitely be home before six o'clock.6点以前,我一定回家。