Yale harmonizes music and literacy in local schools
Nora Wessel Yale Daily News It is Tuesday morning at John C. Daniels Magnet School. Class is in session and the building is quiet, save for faint music echoing down the sunshine-flooded halls. Inside the music auditorium, more than a dozen sixth-grade students perch in front of music stands, flutes, clarinets and trumpets in hand. [...]
Music program hits high notes
By Elizabeth Benton New Haven Register NEW HAVEN — Two weeks ago, fifth-grader Serena Santiago secured a coveted spot in the John C. Daniels School band. With interest high and instruments limited, Santiago told band director John Miller she’d be dedicated to whatever he had for her. The pitch worked. He handed her a trombone. [...]
