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 ...

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 ...

ABC15 has teamed up with The Valley Toyota Dealers to help organizations around the Valley who are Helping Kids Go Places. The Wigwam Creek Middle School Strings Program allows students to explore ...

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 ...

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 ...

FOREST GROVE – Parents and supporters of the Forest Grove School District’s successful strings music education program didn’t take the news of a funding cut to their program sitting down. When the ...

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 ...