By KARLA WALKER· Aug. 19, 2022, 12:04 pm
Rosalind Greisz is one of those teachers who goes above and beyond for her students. She recently drove over 600 miles roundtrip to pick up newly refurbished instruments that she’ll take back to her band room in Ouray.
“This is going to be huge! It’s going to be every single student having the opportunity to have music in their home.”
By SARAH DIAMOND
Covid Stopped the music. Now this school is striking up the band again.
Surrounded by classroom walls hung with colorful violins and music theory posters, Roshan Reddy counted to three. He raised his palm, a chorus of shiny horns and woodwinds hummed to life, and the first notes of Adele’s “Easy on Me” filled the band room at P.S. 11 elementary school in Brooklyn.
Despite clarinet squeaks and the occasional bleat of a rogue saxophone, almost every student was smiling.
A goal of the band program is to prepare students for more challenging music instruction. But mostly, Mr. Reddy says, he just wants kids to leave school loving music.
“It’s not about trying to create a little Mozart, it’s about students finding their own strength,” he said. “We’re the people who have to carry music through this moment.”
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By NELSON GARCIA, 9News
Danna Orocsco, a freshman at Jefferson Junior/Senior High School in Edgewater, knows what it’s like to try to learn music with few resources.
“I’m from Colombia,” Danna said. “I was born and raised there, and we only learn about music theory because there’s really not enough money to provide everybody with an instrument.”
Jefferson and teacher Nathan Prismon don’t have the money either.
“It would be impossible, not even close,” Prismon said.
Yet, in Prismon’s orchestra class, Danna has her own instrument to play and so do her classmates, even though Prismon said about 90% of the students who attend the school live in poverty.
“We have a lot of students who can’t afford their own instruments. So, it’s helped us build our own instrument library,” Prismon said. “We could get instruments out to those students who can’t afford them. It’s really honestly life or death for us.”
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By NELSON GARCIA, 9News
To Aurora Academy Charter School teacher Mike Horsford, playing together means learning together.
“Certain activities, music included, build up structures in your brain in a different way than any other kind of mental activity,” Horsford said.
Horsford said learning to read music has helped some students who are also learning to read and speak English at Aurora Academy, a K-8 school.
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