String Project to provide lessons, instruments By MARK STRYKER FREE PRESS MUSIC WRITER The Detroit Symphony Orchestra already has one of the most extensive music education programs of any orchestra in the United States, with nine student training ensembles playing everything from Mahler to Duke Ellington. But a five-year, $1-million gift from Honda being announced today will allow the DSO to reach deeper into Detroit neighborhoods and, for the first time, put violins and other string instruments into the hands of beginning students in grades 3 through 6 and teach them to play. Beginning next...
photo: WN / mina
