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 ...

Elaine Gleason had her first serious encounter with classical music when she was in third grade. A friend's father directed a school program that taught children to play symphonic instruments, and one ...

Northern Michigan seems to be an arts-centric hub, and one local organization with this type of focus is celebrating its 20th anniversary while looking forward to a full year of programming ahead of ...

The music room at Laurel Lane Elementary School holds decades of memories for Cynthia Campbell. On her desk sits old photobooks, capturing memories of former students and past recitals. Today, those ...

As it embarks on its 20th year, the Dorothy Gerber Strings Program has recently announced that it is joining the Great Lakes Center for the Arts as a core educational program of the center. The ...

Learning to play the violin, a squawky, painful instrument when first approached by soft, young fingers, was not at the top of Rebecca Fazzino’s list of fun things to do when she entered third grade ...

For a half-hour, once a week, the third-grade students of Roseland School District get a break from their usual lessons, with something a little different. Every Friday, the students are taught music ...

As Cameron and Robin Meyer watched their daughter play violin in front of classmates at Silver Beach Elementary School, they couldn’t help but be proud of how much the fifth-grader had improved after ...