Tag: Settlement Music School

Riverfront: Along the Waterfront, a New Deal Era Tour Revisited

May 27, 2020 Maxwell Klemmer

As part of the stimulus of the New Deal, President Franklin Deleano Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) employed thousands of writers under the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP). One of the primary achievements of the FWP

Art: Settlement Music School Offers Early Education with a Heavy Dose of Arts

December 11, 2019 Amber Denham

In 1995, Tarrell Davis went into her interview at Settlement Music School for a position as a social worker. But during the tour, she saw the kinds of early education programs Settlement offered to low-income

Germantown: Spotlight on Settlement Music School

December 5, 2013

https://vimeo.com/79430225] This year marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of the opening of Settlement Music School‘s (SMS) Germantown branch. The Settlement community as a whole has been operating for more than 100 years. The school serves as

South Philadelphia: Music in the Classroom

October 19, 2011

https://vimeo.com/30701603] Room 107 of George W. Nebinger School almost always brims with noise – and last Wednesday was no different. “Great big house in New Orleans, 40 stories high,” a group of students sang, their