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Music Arts School is a community music school in Highland Park, Illinois . It offers private lessons on Guitar , Bass Guitar , Piano , Keyboard , Drums , world Percussion , Violin , Viola , Cello , Saxophone , Clarinet , Flute , Recorder , and Voice . It also has a curriculum of group classes including programs for both adults and early childhood. Music Arts School began as a private music school in 1952. Pianist Mortimer Scheff founded the school and continued to head it until retiring in 2005. Since 2001, the school has functioned as a non-profit. Today, it continues to serve the North Shore of Chicago with individual music lessons and group music classes. The stated mission of Music Arts school is to offer an alternative to the conservatory model of music instruction, which often focuses on stressful and pressure-filled relationships between teachers and students and places great emphasis on competition. Music Arts School instead places great emphasis on learning music in a caring and inclusive atmosphere. Faculty at the school focus on encouraging a love of music-making as well as fostering growth in the performance ability of the students. In the years since becoming a non-profit organization, Music Arts School has grown upon its base of individual instruction by creating a curriculum of group music classes. Current subjects include Adult Group Guitar, Jazz History, and Drum Circle. The school also continues its commitment to early childhood music education with programs including Music Together and Little Drummers. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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