As you leave Duke Ellington, you’re entering and running into a world in which many budgets for the arts have being slashed. So what must you do? What can you do? You might all have to become art activists. Be talented, be beautiful, be outspoken. At times you have to take your drama from the [...]
Maybe you feel like no one has your back, like you’ve been let down by people so many times that you’ve stopped believing in yourself. Maybe you feel like your destiny was written the day you were born and you ought to just rein in your hopes and scale back your dreams. — Michelle Obama, [...]
Back in the 70s hey day D.C.’s McKinley High School was the school the musician types went to. McKinley had music lessons and a decent marching band. The theater and dance folks enrolled in an after-school program called Workshops for Careers in the Arts. They met in the student union at GWU, and a garage-type [...]
