Grant brings varied sounds to SCC music departments

By: 
Erin Sommers Graphic-Advocate Editor

A recommendation from South Central Calhoun Elementary School Principal Nicole McChesney resulted in all three of the district’s school receiving grants to purchase new equipment for the music programs.
At SCC Elementary, students will have access to eight more instruments, all barred instruments such as xylophones and glockenspiels, music teacher Judy Panning said.
“Kids really, really like to play them,” Panning said, explaining that the department already had some of the instruments. “We are going to use them more this year.”
Panning said the grant, which McChesney told her about in May, allowed her to buy more instruments at once than is usually possible. The district doesn’t have a specific budget for new instruments, she said, but her typical requests are for new recorders or mallets. District officials have never denied an equipment request, and the Fine Arts Boosters do a great job of filling in the financial gaps.
Still, the grant offered Panning and the other music teachers a chance to think big – bigger than usual, she said. 
Read more in the Aug. 24 edition. 

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