Blind or Visually Impaired Music Students To Perform In Concert at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Music students from Lighthouse Guild's Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School will perform in concert at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, April 28. The concert will take place from 7 to 8:30pm in the Museum's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. The event is a celebration of a 20-year collaboration to expand accessibility to the arts for people of all ages who have vision loss. The concert, inspired by works in the Museum's collection, will feature adult and youth musicians who are blind or visually impaired performing against a backdrop of art projected above and behind them.

WHO: Music students in solo, instrumental and ensemble performance with narration by actress Michelle Hurst of the show "Orange is the New Black."

Leslie Jones, Executive Director of Lighthouse Guild's Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School

Rebecca McGinnis, Senior Managing Educator, Accessibility, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

WHAT: "Reflections Through the Prism of Art and Music" Concert featuring art, music and poetry

WHERE: The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium 1000 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan

WHEN: Friday, April 28, 2017 7:00 to 8:30pm