May Featured Grants: Music Education at Hayes and Districtwide
Jennie Roffman2025-05-14T10:27:54-04:00Teaching about Roland Hayes in Brookline Music Classes In our May meeting, BEF Board members heard from music educators Meredith Huntley (Hayes), Melodie Linhart (Lawrence) and Becky Vinci (FRR & Lawrence) about two grants from this year, a Collaborative Grant: Teaching about Roland Hayes in Brookline Music Classes, and a Teacher Grant: Indian Music Immersion. Who is “Roland Hayes” of Hayes School? Roland Hayes was a trailblazer in Afro American choral in the early 1900s, but his influence is ever present in music and social justice today. “The beauty of what could be done with the voice just overwhelmed me.” – [...]