On July 21, the New York Yankees hosted Renaissance E.M.S. with a reception in the Yankee Stadium's Great Moments Room and provided a suite and an additional 100 tickets for all of us to enjoy an evening at the great park in its last season. Our vocal group and band provided entertainment for the guests at our reception. We hope to be back at the Stadium in 2009, perhaps with the opportunity for our chorus to sing the National Anthem on the field.
Renaissance E.M.S. is a nonprofit organization located in the South Bronx that serves over 1,000 inner city youths with a first rate performance based music program and a very competitive basketball program along with an academic enrichment and social development agenda that is integrated into all of our programs and that attempts to close part of the gap left by the public schools and by difficult family circumstances.