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Q f ^Firiiiorr ij, l»H4 - THE CHARLOTTE POST- Page 13A School Of The Arts’ Main Purpose h To Serve The Disadvantaged Students on wig Pott Staff Writer There is no greater reward than bringing out a child’s unique talent. However, children can only recog nize their interests or abilities if they are exposed to or have access to artistic channels. The Community School of the Arts is just the place for a child to discover where his or her talent lies. The school, located at 200 W. Trade Street in the First Presbyterian Church, is a non-profit arts school offering lessons in all instruments of ■ the band and orchestra, elasses in visual arts, dance and many pro grams in music and arts apprecia tion. Its main purpose is to serve disadvantaged students who, due to I financial circumstances, would not be able to afford expensive art lessons. The Community School of the Arts brings the arts to low income students since all fees are based on a sliding scale dependent upon the family income and number of persons in the student’s family. Regardless of the individual’s abili ty to pay, the mission of the school is to provide the best in arts education for any interested person. With the inception a distinct pro gram, “A Very Special Arts Program," the school also reaches mentally retarded, learning rfi« abled, visually, hearing and phy sically impaired individuals through arts appreciation. Susan Miller, Music Therapist, works with special persons in this program designed to enhance their developmental skills through music activities. "The music is used as a com municative skill," explains Miller "The instructions in music are adapted to meet their needs or way of learning. " — -In-one instance, Miller elaborates, she works with groups of handi capped children involving the stu dents in playing rhythm instruments together She uses popular contem porary music with uncomplicated rhythms of which the children are familiar such as Michael Jackson or —Van Halen Many-different elements are incorporated in the music rou tines: movement, drama, and singing. "The objective is not necessarily to teach the special child to play an instrument or to sing. We are concerned with the child in teracting with music to broaden his or her goals," Miller maintains. "For example, deaf students can develop a sense of rhythm playing percussion instruments in a group," tells the music therapist. “The quality of rhythm in music goes pass hearing." Additional abilities that can be brought out through the special person's participation in music the rapy are flexibility, eye-hand co ordination, increased concentration and cognitive skills, sequence, span and categorizing. At a parent's request the student may go on with individual lessons in music therapy Again, finance is no object All students who qualify for reduced fees are considered "scho larship students." "Our wish is that all students, handicapped or normal, continue to enjoy music and have success in the experience,” interjects Paul Her bert, Associate Director of the Community School The Community School of the Arts is now accepting registration for its fall 1984-85 school year. The school n - ■ __ will be offering a comprehensive array of music, visual arts and dance classes and lessons for beginning and advanced level stu dents. Both pre-school through adult age students may participate To register, simply call 377-4187 week days All classes and lessons are scheduled on a first-come, first served waiting list basis A Year of the BEST NEWS & ENTERTAINMENT Can Be Yours. Call... 376-0496 nckingon tne power company is standard operating procedure for some folks, particularly in election years. And we certainly don’t deny people the right to express their minds. But we’d like to say a few words about our operating procedure. One of our primary goals has always been to generate electricity as efficiently and economically as possible. And we’re doing pretty well at it. A few weeks ago, we won a first place award for producing electricity more efficiently than any other power company in the United States. Wve won that award six times now. That's quite an achievement. But the real winner isn’t us. It s you. If we had operated at the average efficiency level of all the other power companies, it would have cost our customers nearly $72 million more last year alone. Vk knew electricity isn’t cheap. But you need to know that we re continually working very hard on your behalf. Not just during election years. DUKE POWER ' P Paid for bv the shareholders of Duke Power.
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