Events Calendar | News   Throughout the school year, Third Street offers approximately 250 free concerts by students and faculty to the general public. Student highlights include Chamber Music concerts in November, February and May; String 'Stravaganzas in January and June; Concerto Night and BachFest in March; and the Stowe C. Phelps Annual Student Concert in the spring. Two annual concert series, described below, feature the School's outstanding faculty and accomplished guest artists. Most public events take place in the School's Anna-Maria Kellen Auditorium, an intimate theater-in-the-round with carpeted bleacher-style seating. For more information on any of our concerts, please call 212-777-3240. Artist Performance Series Third Street is proud to present its artist faculty in weekly concerts. Free and open to the public, concerts take place at 7:30pm on most Friday evenings from October to May in the School's Anna-Maria Kellen Auditorium. General seating is available and doors open at 7:15pm. No tickets are required. Click here for 2009-10 Artist Performance Series Schedule. Music in Abe Lebewohl Park Every summer since 1982, Third Street Music School Settlement and the 10th & Stuyvesant Streets Block Association, in cooperation with St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, have presented Music in Abe Lebewohl Park, a series of free outdoor concerts. These eight programs by professional artists offer a wide spectrum of music, much of which reflects the Lower East Side's diverse ethnic culture. Concerts take place on eight Thursdays in June and July at 12:30 p.m. in Abe Lebewohl Park, Second Avenue and 10th Street, in front of historic St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery. In case of rain, performances are held on the portico of the Church. Click here for Summer 2009 Concert Schedule New Horizons Band Third Street launched the New Horizons Band in October 2007. This initiative gives older adults with little or no musical experience the opportunity to play and perform band music with others. Instruments include flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone or almost any other woodwind or brass instrument. The program is underwritten by a grant from the Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation. Find out more... School Partnerships While Third Street Music School Settlement draws students from throughout New York, it remains dedicated to serving children from the Lower East Side. Through the its school partnership program (called MILES - or Music Instruction on the Lower East Side), local public school students receive weekly, hands-on instruction in music and dance during school hours. MILES includes: Music & Movement and recorder instruction for early childhood classes; and music and dance instruction for students in grades four and up - including a new Winds, Brass & Percussion Initiative. Instruction takes place either at Third Street or in the public schools. Six- through 14-year-old students in participating schools are invited to take free after-school/Saturday group lessons or classes at Third Street. Click here for more information. Third Street Music School Settlement • 235 East 11th Street • New York, NY 10003 • 212-777-3240