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If there s one thing Stephen Harvey enjoys almost as much as jazz, it s superhero stories.
“Outside of music, I live and breathe superheroes,” Harvey, a Rochester-raised composer and bandleader said. “It had been a long-time idea to combine these two passions into a project.
Harvey has written nine original compositions, all inspired by comic book/popular culture superheroes, archetypes and tropes.
More specifically, the compositions are influenced by the personas, powers and stories, and what I think would best represent them in the jazz orchestra format, said the 2010 Rochester High grad who now lives and teaches in Salisbury, Md. For example, the title piece, Smash, contains a lot of dark, chromatic harmonies that are accented by the full band. This would represent those big drag-out fights between two super-strength brutes. Each punch by the big band would be a smash from that battle. Or maybe a piece based on the power of flight? The piece “Zephyr” mo
MIDLAND The launch of a new public charter high school in Beaver County takes several leaps forward this week, as Midland Innovation + Technology Charter School (MITCS) announced it is receiving a major grant and two significant donations that will further its work.
On Monday, the Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter Schools (PCPCS) revealed MITCS as one of three sub-grantees who may receive as much as $1.5 million each through Pennsylvania’s Charter School Program (PACSP) Grant.
This award marks the inaugural year of the grant award that will support the development, expansion and replication of 18 high-quality public schools in Pennsylvania over a grant period of five years (2021-25). Each school will be a nonprofit, brick-and-mortar charter school with a model or track record demonstrating a strong likelihood of producing meaningful and sustainable student learning gains.