The music program fosters student performance in concerts and drama productions. Students sing, dance, act, and play instruments appropriate to their grade level. Younger students learn about instruments, music styles, and create their own music on keyboards, which leads to playing the recorder and guitar. Older students play band instruments and perfect guitar and keyboard skills. They use tablature and explore the history of music through the use of Internet resources to uncover the beauty of world music. Grade-level concerts give the students the opportunity to showcase the music curriculum. Forty-four percent (44%) of students in first through eighth grade participate in arts-related extracurricular clubs and activities: drama, art, children’s choir, liturgical dance, and school band. Concert and drama productions fill the school’s auditorium to capacity.

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