NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA. – A shining Steinway Model B grand piano that once seemed like a dream for Marple Newtown High now proudly stands in the school’s new performing arts center – historic testament to the extraordinary life of a local physician and Holocaust survivor.
SAN ANTONIO — Edgewood Independent School District, one of the city's poorest, made a statement Tuesday night about its commitment to music education.Its board approved building a new band hall...
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The Fort Worth Independent School District is reaffirming a powerful long-term commitment to the Fine Arts expected to result in a near $2.5 million acquisition of almost 250 new Steinway-designed Boston pianos.
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A rich cultural mosaic runs through the iconic New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, where gifted students explore high levels of artistic craftsmanship. With a lengthy list of world class jazz luminaries crediting NOCCA for inspiring discipline, dedication, and desire, it proved to be the perfect environment for a certain Steinway that caught the ear of Michael Pellera
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Choral Director Shawna Dumbaugh had just started freshman choir rehearsal at Nevada High School when everything came to a screeching halt. Startled singers gasped, as all eyes turned to Kirsten Weber. “They looked in my direction because of how much richer and more beautiful the piano sounded as opposed to what their ears were accustomed to,” the accompanist fondly remembers after playing the first few notes on the school’s new Steinway Model B
Read MoreAs a classically-trained pianist, Barbara Haggard dreamed of enhancing the quality of musical performances in her beloved hometown of Algona. Now, one could only imagine what she might say as the tight-knit northern Iowa community embraces the instrument of the immortals.
Read MoreMusic – described by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as “liquid architecture” – takes some imaginative turns through the new performing arts center in the Austin Independent School District
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As Gould Academy became an All-Steinway School in 2007, one of the glistening celestial bodies apparently reached out to Tamara Poddubnaya. A powerhouse of a teacher and artist, Tamara heard about “those pianos” and following a tour of the private boarding school found a nurturing home for the Music without Borders International Piano Festival at Gould Academy.
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WILMINGTON, DE — When he arrived at the Cab Calloway School of the Arts, Shane van Neerden had a dilemma. As an honors student building a career in
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With an indoor playground for robots, a fossilized stegosaurus egg, a NASA space shuttle remnant, a couple of German incubators and seven pianos by Steinway & Sons, one could easily imagine the new Gries Center for the Arts and Sciences on a sprawling college campus.
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