.As part of its commitment to community service and music education, the San Antonio College Music & Humanities Department is offering a free, month-long Music Theory College Preparatory Head Start Program in July through early August, Monday-Friday, 9-10 a.m.
The program is primarily for recent high school graduates who attended public high schools that did not offer an Advanced Placement (AP) Music Theory course. The program is offered free of charge, without benefit of outside funding, and includes all materials.
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Dr. Jessica Howard, Chairperson of the Music and Humanities Department, (right), joins high school graduates who are participating in the free Music Theory College Prepatory Head Start Program at San Antonio College this summer.
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"Participants are recommended by their high school band and choral directors or private teachers for the opportunity," said Dr. Jessica Howard, Chairperson of the Music & Humanities Department. She added, "They must have plans to attend a four-year institution in the fall of 2006 as music majors."
Howard said her department is offering this program because students who are strong in music performance and are accepted into four-year colleges are often weak in music theory, and a lack of preparation in music theory can stand in the way of their completing a degree in music.
The eight students who are taking the program are from Brackenridge, South San, O'Connor, John Jay, and Holmes high schools. Their instruments include voice, flute, clarinet, guitar, violin, tuba and trumpet. They will be attending college this fall at Texas Tech University, University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Texas at Austin, University of North Texas, University of Houston, and Texas State University.
For more information, contact Dr. Jessica Howard at 733-2730. |
