The Chicago Community Trust:
Julian Champion founded the West Point School of Music in 2011. The school contracts with Chicago Public Schools to provide music instruction to students on the South and West Sides. Pictured here are students from Whistler Elementary School
The Chicago Community Trust:
West Point provides two programs for Chicago Public School students: a steel drum ensemble and a concert band program.
The Chicago Community Trust:
"I Like to Move It, Move It" is one of the songs that students of Julian Champion's music class.
The Chicago Community Trust:
Celebration on Steel teaches students to play music using steel drums, a genre with roots in Trinidad. Urban Music Makers is a concert band program. “I do not see anything else that can focus the mind the way that learning to play an instrument does.”
The Chicago Community Trust:
A student of Julian Champions student orchestra class plays the steel drums.
The Chicago Community Trust:
Raquel Davis, principal of Whistler Elementary School, hired Julian Champion to put together a student orchestra, starting with a two-week music theory class that Champion conducted. “I was astonished by the skill and ability of the students.”
The Chicago Community Trust:
A student of Julian Champion's student orchestra class plays the drums
The Chicago Community Trust:
A student of Julian Champion's student orchestra class plays the steel drums.
The Chicago Community Trust:
Julian Champion founded the West Point School of Music in 2011. The school contracts with Chicago Public Schools to provide music instruction to students on the South and West Sides. Champion is West Point’s executive director.
The Chicago Community Trust:
Julian Champion founded the West Point School of Music in 2011. The school contracts with Chicago Public Schools to provide music instruction to students on the South and West Sides. Champion is West Point’s executive director.
The Chicago Community Trust:
Julian Champion founded the West Point School of Music in 2011. The school contracts with Chicago Public Schools to provide music instruction to students on the South and West Sides. Champion is West Point’s executive director.
The Chicago Community Trust:
Julian Champion founded the West Point School of Music in 2011. The school contracts with Chicago Public Schools to provide music instruction to students on the South and West Sides. Champion is West Point’s executive director.
The Chicago Community Trust:
A student of Julian Champion's student orchestra class plays the drums.
The Chicago Community Trust:
A student of Julian Champion's student orchestra class plays the drums.
The Chicago Community Trust:
Raquel Davis, principal of Whistler Elementary School, hired Julian Champion to put together a student orchestra, starting with a two-week music theory class that Champion conducted. “I was astonished by the skill and ability of the students.”
The Chicago Community Trust:
A student of Julian Champion's student orchestra class plays the steel drums.
The Chicago Community Trust:
A student of Julian Champion's student orchestra class plays the steel drums.
The Chicago Community Trust:
Julian Champion founded the West Point School of Music in 2011. The school contracts with Chicago Public Schools to provide music instruction to students on the South and West Sides. Champion is West Point’s executive director.
The Chicago Community Trust:
Julian Champion founded the West Point School of Music in 2011. The school contracts with Chicago Public Schools to provide music instruction to students on the South and West Sides. Champion is West Point’s executive director.
The Chicago Community Trust:
A student of Julian Champion's student orchestra class points toward the sheet music that a fellow classmate plays from.
The Chicago Community Trust:
Julian Champion founded the West Point School of Music in 2011. The school contracts with Chicago Public Schools to provide music instruction to students on the South and West Sides. Champion is West Point’s executive director.
The Chicago Community Trust:
Julian Champion founded the West Point School of Music in 2011. The school contracts with Chicago Public Schools to provide music instruction to students on the South and West Sides. Champion is West Point’s executive director.
The Chicago Community Trust:
Julian Champion founded the West Point School of Music in 2011. The school contracts with Chicago Public Schools to provide music instruction to students on the South and West Sides. Champion is West Point’s executive director.
The Chicago Community Trust:
A student of Julian Champion's student orchestra class observes her classmates from afar.
The Chicago Community Trust:
Julian Champion founded the West Point School of Music in 2011. The school contracts with Chicago Public Schools to provide music instruction to students on the South and West Sides. Champion is West Point’s executive director.
The Chicago Community Trust:
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The Chicago Community Trust:
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The Chicago Community Trust:
Students of Julian Champion's student orchestra class play the steel drums.
The Chicago Community Trust:
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