String Project is one of Illinois State University’s longest running community programs, and it is celebrating 20 years of cultivating a love of music in children. The spring concert is at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the Center for Performing Arts at ISU.
No strings attached: UT students offer free music lessons through new program
The String Project is a nationwide initiative to offer lessons and instruments to children who wouldn t normally have access. It s in its first year in Knoxville. Author: Emily DeVoe Updated: 1:58 PM EDT April 12, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. With no strings attached, students in the University of Tennessee s College of music are giving back. One of my colleagues brought up the idea of starting a String Project in Knoxville to help connect our school to the community and provide lessons to students who wouldn t otherwise have the opportunity to study stringed instruments, Dr. Geoffrey Herd, Director of the UT String Project, said.
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Novak Manjlovicâs Places, People review: Daring to bare the inner soul
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This was music into which you could sink as if it were a soft leather armchair, while the musical diary conjured images before your eyes. Pianist/composer Novak Manojlovic was enshrining in sound nine memories of places and people â and, in the process, taking us deep into the weave of his perceptions and texture of his emotional responses.
Novak Manjlovicâs Places, People makes for both a whirlwind global trip and contemplative listening.