When parents enrolled their children this year in Nathan Strick’s classes, they knew there’d be strings attached. Cello and violin strings, to be precise. The Avon school district started offering ...

A popular music program probably will survive budget cuts in Eastern Lancaster County School District, but it will likely operate differently at Garden Spot High School. Elanco superintendent Robert ...

Third-grader Tayja Sallie doesn’t have a year of playing the cello under her belt, but she’s struck a chord and doesn’t want to stop playing. “I haven’t even been playing a year and I’m already this ...

Williamstown High/Middle School String members Ella McMullen, left, Alex Tawney and Payton Woodard rehearse Monday for the program’s “Ireland to Appalachia” performance at 7 p.m. Thursday inside ...

Collin Lyons was mesmerized the first time he heard fingers plucking upon a stringed instrument. "So when I heard about the strings program, I was overjoyed," the 13-year-old student said. At his ...

The String Project is a flagship program that provides affordable, carefully-structured lessons in violin and cello for children in the 4th through 10th grades, taught by the dedicated and talented ...

A good chance exists that Omega Hart's sons will be talented musicians merely through exposure to their musical father, who has played lead bass in Jackson bands and has toured nationally. Two years ...

PITTSBURG, Kan. — The strings program in Pittsburg schools has not yet sunk, but Stella Hastings is sending out a Mayday nonetheless. If need be, upcoming weeks may see her generating an official SOS.