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.
Arts
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.
Putnam spellers & Md. students head to Washington
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
Liberty H.S. in Md. shows how much a community can be counted on to provide support for schools, esp. in music & the arts.