Mr. McGorry's Musical World

The Music Messengers is a special program that Mr. McGorry directs. The group is made up of a selected number of students from the 4th grade. They learn how to play musical instruments in the Orff tradition and also do research projects about music.

Check out Mr. Centeno's site. A great resource for students. Science, Math, Music, and more.

By day, I love to teach children about music (and learn from them also). By night, I am always playing my saxophone and working on improving and creating with it. I perform in Manhattan frequently. You can see my performance calendar and other information here.

This teacher Mr. Duey raps about things like fractions. He makes it fun to learn math. Check out his video.

I created this site in the hopes that my colleagues and I can share ideas about making our students' educational experiences more rich and meaningful. If you are a PS90 teacher who wants to join, this send me an e-mail and I'll set it up. This will help us be more aware of what we are all teaching so that we can find opportunities to make connections for our students.

Jazz at Lincoln Center is a world-class performance hall dedicated to Jazz, America's original art form.

The world famous Carnegie Hall, built by Andrew Carnegie. Every year, PS90 takes a field trip here and sing along and play our recorders with the orchestra.

Another world-class music hall. You can hear many styles of music here. You can attend the opera and hear an orchestra. The Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library is here (available to everyone) and The Julliard School of Music is right next door. The best musicians in the world go here and play at Lincoln Center.

This is a great interactive resource that students (and teachers) will love, compliments of Carnegie Hall.

Learn about jazz. Create your own band and choose the instruments you want to hear. Then, you can hear them played!

This is an interactive site with games, puzzles, and information about music.

Yet another interactive site with fun things to do. Check it out.

See Yo-Yo Ma perform Bach's famous Prelude to Cello Suite #1. You have probably heard this piece, but didn't know what it was.

John Coltrane was a great saxophonist and Miles Davis was a great trumpeter. Click here to see a video of them performing the song "So What."