DOWNTOWN —Santa Monican Adelaide Lloyd started playing the violin in the orchestra program, called Elemental Strings, in the middle of the fourth grade at John Adams Middle School. She remembers ...

That melodious sound emanating from Marietta? It’s the dulcet strains of orchestral music coming back into the schools. For some time, the Marietta school district has been looking for ways to expand ...

A good chance exists that Omega Hart's sons will be talented musicians merely through exposure to their musical father, who has played lead bass in Jackson bands and has toured nationally. Two years ...

Fifth-grade itinerant strings teacher Sally Pool instructs students at Gonzales Elementary. Fifth-grade strings was reintroduced during the last school year as it was found that students can benefit ...

Sixth-grade student Walter Ford takes cello lessons at Charleston Academy of Music from Terry Muir on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. He got connected with the nonprofit group through a program called ...

Third-grader Tayja Sallie doesn’t have a year of playing the cello under her belt, but she’s struck a chord and doesn’t want to stop playing. “I haven’t even been playing a year and I’m already this ...

Sep. 24—When Jim Jordan thinks of Abilene, he remembers his childhood growing up playing music at school. Even now as a retired veterinarian in Oregon, he never forgets his childhood home and love for ...