Williamstown High/Middle School String members Ella McMullen, left, Alex Tawney and Payton Woodard rehearse Monday for the program’s “Ireland to Appalachia” performance at 7 p.m. Thursday inside ...

Syracuse, NY -- Sometimes you have to change the notes and craft a different tune. Budget cuts wiped out about 19 percent of the Syracuse school district’s arts and music staff, and students were in ...

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 ...

Cellist Terry Muir gives private lessons to sixth-grade student Walter Ford at Charleston Academy of Music from on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. Walter got connected with the nonprofit group through a ...