"These things are just dynamic and they seem just alive and organic, " said Hershman, who at the time was a high school music teacher.
After teaching high school music for a few years, he began his entertainment career with a traveling act with his first wife, Barbara Edwards, according to biography.com.
"It's called opera, " her high school music teacher explained.
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Kids who are exposed to music perform better in school: students in high-quality school music education programs score higher on standardized tests compared to students in schools with deficient music education programs, regardless of the socioeconomic level of community.
When she was 15, Fu founded a non-profit group, Visual Arts and Music for Society, that organizes high school volunteers to play music, do art projects and perform in homeless shelters, hospitals, orphanages and senior residences.
So here at Manhattan School of Music were high-school musicians from California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York and Wisconsin immersed in his compositions and thereby him.
After visiting her older sister in New York City, she dropped out of high school to pursue music in the Big Apple, playing often and at every place that would give her a stage.
Mr. DANIELS: You know, the music that you go to high school and college with becomes the music of your life.
After high school, Glasper moved to New York to study music at the New School.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott called for national funding for the National Centre for Excellence in Traditional Music at Plockton High School.
Russ Kramer, a musician who heads the Mason City high school band programme, says that music, and a stubborn spirit of optimism which it helps to underpin, are still central to life in the town.
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This is a performing arts high school, so these guys are into music.
Landau grew up on folk music, and in high school he went to every rock concert he could afford.
Alana was at high school, Este studying "Brazilian carnival music" at UCLA and Danielle was on the road with Cee-Lo Green.
In 1969, my second brother graduated from high school and was recommended to go to a music college.
Always drawn to music, he discovered turntables in high school through a friend's brother who was a DJ.
Even the music rooms in the school are high-tech, with microphones built into the ceilings so they function as recording studios.
Students from Sequoia High School in Redwood City, CA will produce a music video on the bus that will be screened at the conclusion of the five day tours.
Swedes Peter Moren and Bjorn Yttling have been playing music together since they met in high school in the early '90s, but their careers really started taking off when they teamed up with John Eriksson in 1999.
Though Fox's "Glee, " a music-laced show about a high-school glee club, remains in the top 20 for viewers between the ages of 18 and 49, it has seen its rating drop 25% in that group so far this TV season compared with a year earlier, according to Nielsen data provided by Fox. (Fox, like The Wall Street Journal, is owned by News Corp.) This could signal a challenge for "Smash, " Mr. Adgate says.
At 3pm EST today, the White House will host a "Music that Inspired the Movement" workshop for high school students from across the country.
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For example, since 1996, Jazz at Lincoln Center has staged "Essentially Ellington, " an annual competition among high-school bands across the country centered around Ellington's music.
The country music group announced last week that Henryville Junior-Senior High School was the winner of its "Own the Night" prom contest based on a video entry submitted by a rival Clark County, Indiana, school.
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But music snobbery is exhausting and more than a bit junior year of high school.
And Mingus's music has taken somewhat longer to reach and excite young members of high-school jazz bands.
After high school Wang went on to Berkeley, where after a few weeks' flirtation with a career in music--she played piano--Wang shifted gears and studied economics.
"The deep study of this music has affected our lives, " said Jeffery Leonard, director of the band of Lexington High School in Massachusetts.
As her high school friends continued on to college, Holly took a different path - striking out on her own to make music.
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