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Pianos come to a Chicago park near you

By Paul Katula • Jul 18, 2018
Do you want to learn to play the piano despite not having access to one at home? Chicago parks have a possible solution.

Summer musicals in the Chicago suburbs

By Paul Katula • Jul 10, 2018
A few combined-school musicals this summer will be performed in the Chicago suburbs, continuing a longstanding tradition.

In music performance, can you improvise or not?

By Press Release • Jul 6, 2018
The brain shows differential electrical activity between musicians who can improvise and those who, well, can't. Like me.

From Piasa to the parade in Washington

By Paul Katula • Jul 5, 2018
The National Independence Day Parade in Washington brought high school bands from CA, AR, WI, MN, IL, NC, FL, PA, NY, NH, GA, TX.

Plants work their terrible will in Aberdeen

By Paul Katula • Apr 6, 2018
A production of <em>Little Shop of Horrors</em> at Aberdeen HS is timely and makes us reflect on social media & current affairs.

Student-led Cymbeline a success at Uni High

By Paul Katula • Mar 29, 2018
A Shakespearean tragedy that isn't performed quite as often as some of his other plays was a success in Normal, IL.

Maybe now this prayer’s the last one of its kind

By Paul Katula • Mar 25, 2018
<em>Annie</em> closed last weekend in Reisterstown, Md., singing a hopeful message even through dark times and a hard life.

Putnam spellers & Md. students head to Washington

By Paul Katula • Mar 23, 2018
The school safety or gun control issue can't even stay away from a musical about a spelling bee on a high school stage in Maryland.

Liberty brings a whole community under the sea

By Paul Katula • Mar 10, 2018
Liberty H.S. in Md. shows how much a community can be counted on to provide support for schools, esp. in music & the arts.

Stoneman Douglas band plays Carnegie Hall

By Paul Katula • Mar 7, 2018
The wind symphony from Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS performed on the stage at Carnegie Hall in NYC Tuesday, moving forward.

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