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THE 'KEYS' TO THE FUTUREWilton Man's Nonprofit Empowers Children Through Music |
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NORWALK, Posted on 09/13/2009, By LAUREN MYLO, Hour Staff Writer Every week, Norwalk music instructor Claudia Cali drives to Bridgeport and teaches piano classes in a stairwell. She's become well known in Beardsley School, and students who have passed by will often wait until she's done with a lesson before running up and asking if "Miss Claudia" can teach them piano too. Cali is one of 10 teachers who instruct students who wouldn't otherwise have access to a musical education through KEYS, Kids Empowered By Your Support, a nonprofit founded by Wiltonian Rob Silvan five years ago. The program has grown from four students to more than eighty in first through eighth grade in Bridgeport schools. Beardsley doesn't have a music classroom, like many Bridgeport schools where budgets for the arts have been slashed, but KEYS donated a piano to the school, and Cali said... |
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KEYS to SuccessProgram provides children with private music lessons |
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by Joel Weickgenant Stamford Advocate, Sunday December 4, 2005 BRIDGEPORT - In a dimly lit stairwell at Columbus Elementary School in Bridgeport, a Westport-based piano instructor teaches young students – 15 minutes at a time – on an electronic keyboard. The notes echo off cold walls. Occasionally, other children rumble through the stairwell, which Westport-based instructor Julie Chen said makes some pupils shy. The children, who come from working families in poor areas, are getting something they could not otherwise afford – private musical instructions using the Suzuki method, one of the best money can buy. |
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