Richard E Miller is a small Title 1 elementary school in the Washington School District whose band and string instruments have seemed to vanished over the years, so we are in desperate need of instruments. Just to end with a quick example, I currently have only 2 "working" clarinets, and those are held together with electrical tape. I know there is a ton of interest at the school but I just do not have the equipment to put in their hands. Any little bit will help!!Read more »

The enhusiasm for music is growing at Cactus Wren and more students want to join band or orchestra every year! But unfortunately there are not enough instruments for the amount of students signing up. Many of the eager students come from homes that cannot afford to buy or rent an instrument and when the school cannot provide one for them then the child will most likely not be able to play. By donating an instrument or funds you can bring HOPE to a child's musical dreams! Read more »

The band and orchestra program is comprised of a variety of students throughout the campus. We have maxed out all of our school rental instruments this year. The orchetsra this year has performed at the Scottsdale public library and Scottsdale Promenade, the Jazz Band is performing at the Senior Center next month, and the concert ensembles have competed throughout the state. The program is very active, but it is difficult to shut off some of the students passion to learn, because of the lack of rental instruments. Any donations that will help more student be able to explore music and achieve excellence would be greatly appreciated by not only the students, but the community we perform in.Read more »

Hello. I am a choral/orchestra teacher at a TItle I school, Coronado High School. when I began teaching here five years ago, there were 15 students in one choir, 23 students in an orchestra and one small guitar class. Now, I have two sections of guitar, a large orchestra, and three choirs.

We would really appreciate your help and are encouraged by this opportunity to ask for instruments through your program.

If you are able, your contribution would not only benefit the number of students listed, but have an overal impact of pride and gratification that someone cared enough to see to their musical needs.

Thank you.
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Dr. Corso's Music Students: Desert Garden Montessori School is a unique educational setting. Our private school prides itself in educating the whole child, which is why we have maintained our private status as an organization, rather than risking curricular influence by outside institutions. However, we also highly value cultural, economic, and social diversity, so we offer a tuition-assistance program to many of our families, since we might not otherwise have economic diversity of families. In addition, our school did not have a music program established prior to my arrival four years ago, so we are still in the process of creating musical opportunities and gathering resources for our students. We have had amazing experiences so far, especially since all students participate in the music program from our infants all the way up through our high schoolers. Our music program includes: 1) music and creative movement classes for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, 2) instrumental and vocal general music for lower elementary grades, 3) children's chorus for lower elementary grades, 4) band and orchestral string survey classes for middle elementary grades, 5) concert choir for middle elementary, upper elementary, middle, and high school grades, and 6) cadet band, concert band, and cadet strings for upper elementary, middle, and high school grades. Next year, we will be adding a string orchestra to our program with our students who are more advanced. Our school believes in the power and critical importance of music education and want to provide the best experiences possible for our students. Our students are beginning to demonstrate the incredible aesthetic understandings and musical skills that they have acquired since our program's inception.

Our school supports music so much that it is a requirement and an opportunity that each student in every grade, beginning in first, study instrumental music. Each instrument request would provide a music scholarship for two students--one student would have use in class of the instrument during a rotation through all horns, and the other student would be using the instrument in class and at home for more intensive study. Please, empower us to bring music to our children and empower the children to bring music to their families and community!Read more »

Dr. Corso's music students: Desert Garden Montessori School is a unique educational setting. Our private school prides itself in educating the whole child, which is why we have maintained our private status as an organization, rather than risking curricular influence by outside institutions. However, we also highly value cultural, economic, and social diversity, so we offer a tuition-assitance program to many of our families, since we might not otherwise have economic diversity of families. In addition, our school did not have a music program established prior to my arrival four years ago, so we are still in the process of creating musical opportunities and gathering resources for our students. We have had amazing experiences so far, especially since all students participate in the music program from our infants all the way up through our high schoolers. Our music program includes: 1) music and creative movement classes for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, 2) instrumental and vocal general music for lower elementary grades, 3) children's chorus for lower elementary grades, 4) band and orchestral string survey classes for middle elementary grades, 5) concert choir for middle elementary, upper elementary, and middle school grades, and 6) cadet band, concert band, and cadet strings for upper elementary, middle, and high school grades. We plan to offer string orchestra next year for our more advanced students. Our school believes in the power and critical importance of music education and want to provide the best experiences possible for our students. Our students are beginning to demonstrate the incredible aesthetic understandings and musical skills that they have acquired since our program's inception.

Our school supports music so much that it is a requirement and an opportunity that each student in every grade, beginning in first, study instrumental music. This particular instrument request would provide music scholarship use of each instrument for two students--one student would have use in class of the instrument during a rotation through all strings and percussion, and the other student would be using the instrument in class and at home for more intensive study in our new string program. Please, empower us to bring music to our children and empower the children to bring music to their families and community!Read more »

"Water! Water everywhere, nor any drop to drink."

One's thirst for knowledge is one barometer by which we can anticipate academic success. Students who WANT to learn are usually the ones who excel, or at least acquire practical, quality-of-life-enhancing knowledge they'll appreciate for years to come. My 4-6th grade music students are about to be set to sail on a sturdily built, safe, vessel (Washington Elementary) whose potable water supplies (instrument closets) are unfortunately low. A Title 1 school where over 60% of the students qualify for free lunch, scores of others are immigrants and refugees, and dozens cannot afford transportation to public libraries for research materials, acquiring new music instruments is not high on the school's budget priority list. We have not had a band/strings program in years.

I've been asked to be a band director at a school with no band instruments! There are NO small woodwinds, small brass, or small orchestral strings, which are the very instruments that beginner students should start on to see if they would like to move on to something else. Plenty of guitars and keyboards, not a single clarinet, flute, saxophone, viola, or trumpet.

Through field trips, talent shows, school musicals, and classroom folk projects, my students are just beginning to learn what the orchestral instruments are, and show great promise. If only they had the opportunity, a glass of water in the form of an instrument!

As a current music teacher who earned a music scholarship with a donated clarinet, I can attest to the impact musical opportunities have on inner-city youth. Invest in our children, quench their thirst and donate an instrument TODAY!

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My students attend a K-8 school in a very low income part of the city. 100% of the school's students receive free lunch and breakfast. The school is a uniform school and most of the students wear the same shirt every day of the week. The majority of my students are not able to afford their own instrument. Some of my students are not even able to purchase a $10 method book needed for the class. Because of this, the school has many instruments that I loan to students to use for the year free of charge.

The band program has been steadily growing every year. Since I started in 2009, the band has grown from 100 students to about 135 students today. Though this is a great thing, it has created many challenges. The band receives funding to repair instruments, for method books for every student and for supplies such as reeds, but we haven't had funding to purchase instruments since 2008. Due to this challenge, students have to share instruments with students in other classes, we have had to borrow instruments and mouthpieces from multiple schools in and outside of our district, or had to play poor performing instruments that could only play certain notes. I have new students knocking on my door daily wanting to join band but I have had to turn some away because we don't have the space or the instruments. You can help me change this by donating to our band today!Read more »

The students at Boulder Creek Elementary need instruments for our beginning band program.Read more »

My Music Program offers Band, Choir, and Guitar for Junior High students in the Roosevelt School District in South Phoenix, an area known for it's student population high with minorities and poverty. My school district can provide band instruments but my school has no acoustic nylon string guitars. I have been a professional guitarist and want to offer guitar studies to my students. When I offered the possibility of a guitar class to my students, I had an overwhelming response from my students to sign up......but my school has no guitars. A few students have their own guitars but their are not nearly enough for all the students to study with......please help.
Any help is greatly appreciated....Thank you!Read more »

Moon Valley does not have a budget for new or used instruments. All of the Band and String instruments are more than 20 years old. We have a great need for marching percussion and brass.

Currently, in string orchestra, I have 4 people interested in playing string bass and only 1 working bass. I have 5 students interested in playing cello, but only 3 playable celli.

These are great kids - hungry to learn and create. They just do not have the resources.Read more »