The Stax Music Academy isn’t participating in the debate about whether schools should open their classrooms and risk the further spreading of COVID-19. They’re going online, choosing to create solu…
is putting up the prize money for a monthly citywide competition featuring professional musicians as judges; Maroon 5’s PJ Morton is the jurist on the next challenge.
The academy’s ensembles of teenage students have performed in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Europe, and on NBC’s “Today” and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” Students have collaborated with Justin Timberlake, Stax singer William Bell, Mavis Staples and others. Last year they had a real eye-opener when one of their students, a valedictorian at his high school, couldn’t find a scholarship for music. “We got involved and he ended up having four different schools offer him four scholarships. We were just like, ‘what’s going on here?’ We recognize now that we have to have a more active role in helping them find scholarships, because depending on what school they go to, their guidance counselors just don’t know about the music scholarships.
It’s more than masks and face shields. They’re ordering covers for the brass and woodwinds, creating new spaces in rehearsal spaces to keep the students safe and adding medical grade air filters to in the HVAC system. All of it is being done in consultation with doctors and health scientists.
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