Hawaiian musician Ben Ahn recently made a return visit to ASIJ and spent a week working with our elementary school music teachers and their classes. Ben taught students the art of ukulele and gave a special community performance as part of Spirit Week. Karolee Kent (elementary school teacher) writes on Ben Ahn’s visit. Continue reading
Elementary school teachers Lindsay Reynolds and Mindy Coon present The Jungle Book Kids, a third, fourth and fifth-grade student musical production. Continue reading
Karolee Kent (elementary school music teacher) updates us on a recent elementary school strings and handbell performance in the ASIJ Theater. Continue reading
David Neale (musical director/producer) writes on this year’s high school musical, a production that introduced the audience to “the woman in the chair,” who led viewers through the show, putting on a record of her favorite musical to deal with “a little self-conscious anxiety resulting in a non-specific sadness.” Her record plays, The Drowsy Chaperone comes to life and the stage is thrust back in time to the 1920s as it filled with student performers. Continue reading
Karolee Kent (elementary school music teacher) writes on a recent visit by musicians Melissa Coffey Armstead and her husband Robert Armstead. Continue reading
