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Music education programs in Newark, NJ

Newark Music Education Showcase

By Lia Peralta

The Newark Board of Education serves more low-income students than all other districts in New Jersey. In 2017, Save The Music Foundation, in coordination with Newark Arts, the Newark Arts Education Roundtable and other local organizations, launched a five-year...

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Save The Music music education grant

Master class with Alexander Laing

By Lia Peralta

Save The Music was thrilled to have principal clarinetist of the Phoenix Symphony, Alexander Laing, at Desert Thunder School to present a very special master class to the band students. He started off with a demo of his instrument. He then gave a few students a lesson...

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music education in action

Stories Matter: Wellpinit School District

By Samantha Manus

BACKGROUND Located within the boundaries of the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington state, Wellpinit is a small rural town of approximately 2,100 people. The overall unemployment rate is 25.84% and the poverty rate is 32.7%, both more than double the national...

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Sound Start music education grant program

Sound Start foundation’s work from coast to coast

By Lia Peralta

In May 2018, Sound United launched the Sound Start Foundation, with an ambitious goal to donate 10,000 instruments to children worldwide by the 2020-2021 school year. In the first few months of this partnership, the Sound Start foundation and Save The Music delivered...

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