Music lessons may reduce bullying of autistic kids
Collaborative music lessons in schools may help to reduce the bullying of autistic students, new research suggests.
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Movie review: Eighth Grade
The 8th-grade year is a tough one for suburban girls. This movie takes an honest but very tender and sensitive look at it.
Condo fire kids need clarinets etc.
A teacher is trying to round up a few musical instruments to help students whose families lost everything in a massive condo fire.
Pianos come to a Chicago park near you
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
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?
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
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
A production of Little Shop of Horrors at Aberdeen HS is timely and makes us reflect on social media & current affairs.
Student-led Cymbeline a success at Uni High
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
Annie closed last weekend in Reisterstown, Md., singing a hopeful message even through dark times and a hard life.