Virginia music teacher Annie Ray started an orchestra for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She just won a Grammy for music education, and a $10,000 grant for her school.
Mayor Suyapa Jaqueline Trejo wanted music education for the youth of Macuelizo and a better quality of life for her town. Her municipality was strapped for cash. So she came up with a novel idea.
LISTEN: Four years ago the Macon Symphony Orchestra took the stage for the last time. This week the symphony returned to the city’s Grand Opera House with a new name: The Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra. That's thanks to a new collaboration between the young musicians of the Mercer University McDuffie Center for Strings and the seasoned professionals of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
There’s some art in Atlanta that’s not found in paints and brushes, but in pitches and beats. The art of making music is a special gift, and one the...