In The New Yorker this week, but not online, is "Learning the
Score," a long-gestating article on the state of music education.
Above is a picture of Hassan Ralph Williams’s locally legendary Malcolm
X Shabazz High School Marching Band, playing at the Memorial Day Parade
in Nutley, NJ last year. The website for the remarkable Community
MusicWorks organization in Rhode Island can be found here. The Music for All Foundation has much useful information at its site; Music for All’s alarming report
on the drastic decline of music education in California seems to have
spurred new investment in music and arts programs there, to the tune of
$500 million.