• Orchestrating Diversity Creates Inclusive Music

    Orchestrating Diversity Creates Inclusive Music

    Founder and Executive Director Mark Sarich of Orchestrating Diversity shares what makes this organization, which provides free musical experiences for area youth during the school year as well as in the summertime, so special. The Diversity Orchestra, an ensemble open to all with a goal to push each member to perform beyond their expectations, has a Spring Concert this…

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  • Catching Up with COCA

    Catching Up with COCA

    Classic 107.3’s Julie Schuster is joined by Indigo Sams, the President and CEO of COCA (Center of Creative Arts); Orlando Graves Bolaños, COCA’s Senior Director of Arts Programming; and Abby Frohne, COCA’s Director of Marketing, to talk about what’s happening at this local arts institution! First up is the production of The Wolves on March 24-26, part…

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  • Meet Michael V. Smith of the Des Lee Fine Arts Collaborative

    Meet Michael V. Smith of the Des Lee Fine Arts Collaborative

    Host Kathy Lawton Brown talks with Michael V. Smith, Ph.D., the E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of Music Education at the University of Missouri – St. Louis and the Director of the Des Lee Fine Arts Education Collaborative. Prior to coming to UMSL in January of 2016, Dr. Smith headed the Music Education Division of…

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