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NCE Middle School Programs
Needham Community Education’s NCE Elementary program offers a wide array of after school classes at each elementary school at the end of the school day.
Summer Explorations 2024
Health and Wellness
Exercise and recreation classes
Fine arts and crafts
DYI, home, garden and skills classes
Humanities and science programs
Investment and financial planning classes
Parenting programs
Learn to play a game or improve your game skills
SSAT, SAT prep, PSAT prep, and prep school, college and grad school application related programs for students and parents.
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Broadmeadow Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Eliot Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Mitchell Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Newman Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes at Sunita WIlliams
NCE Kids' Late Afternoon and Evening Classes
NCE Kids Virtual Classes
Week 1 : July 8-12 : Rising Grades 1-5
Week 1: July 8-12, Rising 6-9
Week 2 : July 15-19 : Rising Grades 1-5
Summer Explorations programs for Week 2: July 15-19
Week 3 : July 22-26 : Rising Grades 1-5
Summer Explorations programs for Week 3: July 21-26
Week 4 : July 26-Aug 2 : Rising Grades 1-6
Summer Explorations programs for Week 4: July 29-Aug 2
Private Music Lessons
Louis Armstrong changed the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic shape of American music. Yet he had a simple goal: to please his people and give them a song. In the cornetist Joe “King” Oliver, he found a mentor and hero. “No one had the fire and the endurance Joe had," Louis recalled. “Almost everything important in music today came from him.” Oliver heavily influenced Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and other legendary musicians. Yet he died broke and alone in a Savannah backroom. In this program, we will discover where Armstrong got his own fire and why his brilliant sound soared above the rest.
Peter Gerler has written about jazz since the early 1990s. He has been published in American Legacy, DownBeat, JazzTimes, Humanities, Syncopated Times, The Boston Globe, New Orleans Gambit, Moultrie Observer, WBGO Upbeat, www.jazz.com, www.nejazz.com, and other venues. He has presented on early jazz at Satchmo Summerfest, River Road African American Museum, Classic Jazz at Lincoln Library, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Newton Lifetime Learning, and numerous senior facilities in the Boston area. Peter has played guitar with small swing groups, most notably the Blue Horizon Jazz Band. He lived in New Orleans from 1990-1995 and is working on a book about the jazz legend Joe "King" Oliver (Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans mentor).
Peter Gerler
