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a one-week summer camp with work- shops in performance – singing, dancing, acting and music business from tech to main office.” Students also got to work with a member of the musical Motown, cast members from Wicked came to do a workshop and two students sang in the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s Jerry Herman Concert, auditioning through the Jerry Herman Foundation.
At the elementary and middle school level, students at Rufus King Middle School were interested in composing and making a music video. They received a grant to work with a local composer/ musician to write and produce a video for a school song. Music teacher Connie Gordon states, “Students want to tell the community about all the wonderful things happening at their school and share their thoughts about the importance of educa- tion.” Because of the outside interests in music technology of students at Audu- bon Middle School, music teacher Kari
Kraenzler stated, “A cloud-based program called ‘Soundation’ is being utilized to make music with ALL students – not just the ones who feel that they have musical talent.” Because of student interest in music of different ethnicities, two MPS traveling music teachers began and direct the Festival Strings Orchestra, composed primarily of elementary and middle school students, that performs at some of the many summer ethnic festivals in Milwau- kee, such as Festa Italiana or Germanfest. According to co-director Becky Arthurs, “Students have told me that they’ll call grandma or grandpa in Germany and play over the phone for them.” And because of outside interests in playing piano, Whit- man School (grades K-8), along with band and general music, is offering group piano lessons during the school day on five old but tuned acoustic school pianos. As one beginning piano seventh grade boy told me, “I always wanted to be able to play piano for birthdays and other holidays with my family; now I can!”
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As music educators we need to realize that we have the core academic specialty to utilize the demographics (urban and rural), the socioeconomics (poor and wealthy) and the ethnicities and cultures (white, black, American Indian, Asian, Hispanic… you name it). We can be the catalyst to increase school attendance, improve classroom behavior and develop character in students as we connect with them through their personal musical in- terests and engage those with or without a musical background by bridging the gap to the music classroom. If we don’t bridge the gap, it would be a loss both for the students we serve and for ourselves as teachers of the art of music.
Douglas Kuepper is a retired music teacher, an adjunct music instructor for Lakeland College Milwaukee Center and is the former district curriculum specialist in music education for Milwaukee Public Schools. Email:
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