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Bob Lappin Awards
- February 3, 2002 Recipient, Key to the City of West Palm Beach, Florida, Mayor Joel Davies
- February 5, 2002 Recipient, Key to the City of Boca Raton, Florida, Mayor Steven Abrahams
- December 11, 2002 Recipient, Steinway International Artist
- December 1, 2003 Recipient, Key to the City of West Palm Beach, Florida, Mayor Lois Frankel. Honoree, Bob Lappin Day, City of West Palm Beach
- February 2004, Inaugural Recipient, Cultural Leader of the Year, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
- February 2004, Recipient, Distinguished Artist in Residence, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Boca Raton
- January 11, 2006 Honoree, Bob Lappin Day, Town of Palm Beach, Florida, Mayor Jack MacDonald
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Music & You
In-School Youth Education
For over a decade Bob Lappin and the Palm Beach Pops have been providing quality music appreciation education at no cost to the Palm Beach County School System. Over 54,000 largely Title One elementary school children have learned the rudiments of music: melody, rhythm and harmony, via live in-school instruction presented by the Music Man Lanny Smish and the four sections of the orchestra. Content is then tied back to math, reading, science, social studies and geography.
Palm Beach Pops is proud of its partnership with the Sun-Sentinel in the Music & You In-School Youth Education Program.
The activities in the program were designed to accompany the FCAT certified student booklet “Music and You”, and to enhance teaching of music in the classroom environment. Activities were written by the Sun-Sentinel NIE staff and an elementary teacher, with the final approval of the Palm Beach County Music and Arts Education Department.
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Tickets for Children and Families Program
The Tickets for Children & Families Program is a special extension of The Palm Beach Pops’ In-School Youth Education Program.Through the generosity of Founders Joan and Allen Bildner and other generous benefactors, promising students who complete one of the two four-week in-school series, maintain above-average grades and demonstrate a commitment to music, receive free tickets to a Palm Beach Pops concert.
In turn, they and their families have an opportunity to experience together a live, orchestral performance.
This valuable program clearly encourages young people to take an interest in music while being exposed to the positive messages conveyed by the American Songbook. |
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Florida Stars
The Florida Stars program provides opportunities for gifted local students to perform with the Pops, before a live audience, thus ensuring the perpetuation of a pool of talented young performers from the local area.
Each season, Maestro Lappin searches for and auditions talented local students, ages 6-18, and offers them the opportunity to perform with the orchestra during a concert.
Bob Lappin and the Palm Beach Pops accepts applicants for this program year round. Anyone interested in submitting a South Florida youngster between the ages of 6-18 for consideration should send a biography, photo and recent sample of their music along with contact information for the child to The Palm Beach Pops, ATTN: Florida Stars, 500 Australian Avenue South, Suite 100, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Materials received will not be returned. Materials and letters of recommendation must be submitted by a music professional or community leader.
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