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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Boston Arts Academy students got to pay tribute to a music legend at Symphony Hall over the weekend.
Students performed hits like "Proud Mary" as a part of their Tina Turner Review to honor the life of the iconic singer who died last May. Leah Pires is a dancer and one of the students who performed in the show, she told WBZ's Carl Stevens she loved being able to pay tribute to an artist she loves.
"It's an amazing experience," she said. "I hope I can live on that legacy through my dancing."
The students took the stage as part of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Concert for the City, a free concert meant to celebrate the city and build community through sharing music. Boston Arts Academy music teacher Mariana Green-Hill said performing at Symphony Hall allows her students to merge their DNA with the DNA of the historic concert hall.
"I think it means so much to be here and actually feel the space and understand the space," she said. "[Then] it doesn't feel like such a reach for students to be able to see themselves in a place like this."
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The Boston Pops and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus also played at the show along with guest performances from Nathan Amaral, a violinist and New England Conservatory student who won the 2024 Sphinx Competition, and Boston's Youth Poet Laureate Anjalequa Leynneyah Verona Birkett.
WBZ's Carl Stevens (@CarlWBZ) reports.
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