“What if instead of having to explain why music should stay, we boldly declare why the arts are the backbone of healthy schools?”
—Alexis Roderick Joel, speaking at the School of Music’s biennial Symposium on Music in Schools on June 13. Joel and her husband Billy Joel have made a three-year pledge to Yale’s Music in Schools Initiative; the amount was not disclosed, but the school says it will allow the program to more than double the number of New Haven public schools it serves.
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