A CCSD teacher is a semifinalist for the Grammys Music Educator of the Year award, the only candidate from Nevada among 25 teachers nationwide in the running for a $20,000 prize.
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Elvis’ and Ann-Margret’s feverish “C’mon Everybody” was filmed at what is now the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art.
Tania Webb’s advanced theater students in Las Vegas created a 36-minute children’s puppet theater show using common household items.
Open to the public with paid admission to the museum, the Midweek Musicale will run through the end of the year.
Ryan Patrick, guitarist with Las Vegas band Otherwise, provides the instruments to local school music programs through his nonprofit.
Natalie Young, chef/owner of Eat and Old Soul, will prepare her famous fried chicken in dinners of three, six or nine pieces to help buy Chromebooks for local students.
The $25,000 awards will bring more music, reading and drama into children’s lives.
‘Quaternity’ is a 70-minute collection of music by the 65-member orchestra.
While Clark County school closures due to COVID-19 meant the end to live school performances, students from at three Las Vegas schools are determined the show will go on.
The university has been awarded a $271,580 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Social distancing and distance education didn’t stop the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts wind symphony from putting on a performance over the weekend.
More than 500 turn out to see the film “A Fine Line,” which addresses the lack of women in culinary leadership roles.