By SCOTT SIMON, Weekend Edition
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By SCOTT SIMON, Weekend Edition
Listen to the full story here.
Our 2022 opens with many possibilities for your participation. Read the full January 2022 edition of Quarter Notes here to discover all the ways you can get involved!
The beginning of the school year marks the end of our annual cycle. This year, we not only met our year-end deadline, we beat it! Thanks to the unparalleled success of this year’s instrument drive, we filled most of the needs of all qualifying music programs. Of the instruments donated last March and repaired in the interim, 594 were in the hands of Colorado children when 41 band directors and orchestra conductors picked up their batons for the first downbeat of the new school year. And for the first time, instrument donations outpaced instrument applications. That means extra brass, strings and woodwinds are waiting in the wings – ready to be repaired and awarded as part of the 2022 instrument drive.
We gratefully note that more instruments were donated in 2021 than in any of the previous five years! We would like to thank the 776 individuals who generously parted with one or more of their instruments, including Rocky and Dorothy DeNiro of Pueblo, Colorado (pictured here at their home) who gifted us with 100 horns and woodwinds from their private collection.
Read the June 2021 edition of Quarter Notes here.
By NATALIE CHUCK
Mr. Rocky DeNiro, a longtime district music teacher who retired in 2007, will keep music alive in the district through a donation of 100 brass and woodwind instruments, given to the district as part of the Bringing Music to Life instrument drive.
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