PARKERSBURG – The fifth-grade band rooms across Wood County will sit silent next year if program cuts are made as planned by the board of education, band directors said Monday. Due to the cut of a ...

When I was in elementary school, a representative from a musical instrument store came to school. All the fifth graders were gathered in the gym – all of us. We were given demonstrations of the ...

The Janesville School District is reviewing a recommendation to eliminate fifth-grade band and orchestra programs and merge them into a general music class. About 64 percent of fifth-graders in the ...

WILBRAHAM – Fifth and sixth grade band will be restored at Wilbraham Middle School, but seventh grade French will not. Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School Superintendent M. Martin O'Shea announced a ...

BOTHELL, Wash. — The fight is on for parents in the Northshore School District to save the fifth-grade band. Families worry further cutting the program will force it to dissolve in years to come.

I recently heard on the radio that scientist believe that music actually came before language. Early man started banging out tunes before they could form words. Of course most women would say that is ...

“Remember not to skip anything,” band instructor Bruce Jolivette cautioned before waving his baton. Except for a couple of off-key notes or squeaks, 36 Garner-Hayfield Elementary fifth-graders were ...

It’s beginning band testing season for the Copperas Cove Independent School District, and the band is lining up students to see what instruments they will hit the right note. Each year, from the end ...

Fifth-grade band instruction may be gone and hours of instrumental instruction added in the sixth grade under a proposal at West Aurora School District 129. The West Aurora School Board is considering ...