"It was a transition period of my life," says Semones, who struggled to find time for creativity now that she had a full-time job at a Japanese preschool. "I was trying to work on music after a 10 ...

Bishop Robert Brennan was observing a music class for kindergarten students at Divine Wisdom Catholic Academy in Douglaston ...

and she recently helped the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction rewrite the music education standards for kindergarten through twelfth grades. In her spare time, Black, a Leland ...