San Diego Unified LevelUp summer program sees huge increase with 30K students enrolled
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Thirty-thousand students are now enrolled in the Level Up SD learning summer program, organizers announced Monday. During a press conference held at Wilson Middle School in the City Heights neighborhood, representatives from the San Diego Unified...
SDYS Premieres “(You Are) Amazing” featuring Hundreds of Local Youth Musicians
It’s finally here: the world premiere of Brian Balmages’ “(You Are) Amazing,” written in celebration of SDYS’ 75th anniversary and recorded by close to 350 students from SDYS and 7 other local youth music organizations.
Lockdown Learning: Pandemic Music Instruction, featuring SDYS
Though in-person instruction has been mostly shut down since the pandemic began in 2020, youth orchestras have been finding myriad ways to rehearse and perform, socially distanced. And some of the changes will likely be lasting, informing music education in the...
