Starting in the arts
Starting in the arts
Starting in the arts
Starting in the arts
The payoffs for kids are immeasurable, but the payouts for parents can be unbearable
By Janelle Gelfand and Jackie Demaline
Enquirer staff writers
The Enquirer /Joseph Fuqua II
Left to right: Brittany Liu, age 11, Courtney Liu, age 15, and mom Kelly Liu.
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What: Benefit Concert for the Touchstone Project, offering free music lessons to school children, and the Starling Chamber Orchestra, starring violinists Yang Liu, Chee-Yun and Alyssa Park and pianist Awadagin Pratt, the Baur Quartet with the Starling Chamber Orchestra, Kurt Sassmannshaus, director.
When: 7 p.m. Dec. 7
Where: Memorial Hall, Over-the-Rhine
Tickets: $50; $100 includes reception; other sponsorships available. (513) 948-1900; www.thetouchstoneproject.com
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On a Tuesday morning at Parham Elementary School in Evanston, 10-year-old Kahlille Hummons is concentrating hard on playing her half-size violin. She plays a scale, projecting a big, clear tone with natural ease. Then she listens intently as her teacher, Kesiana Ymeri, plays a piece called "Allegro" and imitates it note-perfectly.
"She has just blossomed with it," says her mother, Sanita Richardson, 27, a single mom and full-time student with three other children.
Kahlille is learning to play the violin through the Touchstone Project, which provides free lessons to 245 children in four area schools. Without Touchstone, the group violin lessons Kahlille gets twice weekly would be an impossible dream.
"Right now, it's financially challenging for me," her mother says. "It's time-consuming, but because (the lessons) are at school, I don't have to do the transporting. Since they furnish the equipment, that helps as well."
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Starting in the arts
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The payoffs for kids are immeasurable, but the payouts for parents can be unbearable
By Janelle Gelfand and Jackie Demaline
Enquirer staff writers
The Enquirer /Joseph Fuqua II
Left to right: Brittany Liu, age 11, Courtney Liu, age 15, and mom Kelly Liu.
IF YOU GO
What: Benefit Concert for the Touchstone Project, offering free music lessons to school children, and the Starling Chamber Orchestra, starring violinists Yang Liu, Chee-Yun and Alyssa Park and pianist Awadagin Pratt, the Baur Quartet with the Starling Chamber Orchestra, Kurt Sassmannshaus, director.
When: 7 p.m. Dec. 7
Where: Memorial Hall, Over-the-Rhine
Tickets: $50; $100 includes reception; other sponsorships available. (513) 948-1900; www.thetouchstoneproject.com
ADVERTISEMENT
RELATED STORIES
• Acting career paved by private lessons
• Parents willingly sacrifice for kids
• Financial aid tough to find
Related news from the Web
Latest headlines by topic:
• Preschoolers
• Standardized Testing
• Family
• Education
• Arts
• Kids
• Ballet
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On a Tuesday morning at Parham Elementary School in Evanston, 10-year-old Kahlille Hummons is concentrating hard on playing her half-size violin. She plays a scale, projecting a big, clear tone with natural ease. Then she listens intently as her teacher, Kesiana Ymeri, plays a piece called "Allegro" and imitates it note-perfectly.
"She has just blossomed with it," says her mother, Sanita Richardson, 27, a single mom and full-time student with three other children.
Kahlille is learning to play the violin through the Touchstone Project, which provides free lessons to 245 children in four area schools. Without Touchstone, the group violin lessons Kahlille gets twice weekly would be an impossible dream.
"Right now, it's financially challenging for me," her mother says. "It's time-consuming, but because (the lessons) are at school, I don't have to do the transporting. Since they furnish the equipment, that helps as well."
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