“Just as students now turn to digital learning for math and English classes, Orange County [Florida] Public Schools is stepping up to connect many of its students to professional musicians and performers at home,” reports Rachael Krause on Wednesday’s (5/6) Spectrum News 13 (central Florida). “The ‘Arts Beyond the Screen’ program is using distance learning to connect students to ballet lessons, opera master classes, watching Shakespeare be performed in the theater, even live lessons with the Orlando Philharmonic…. ‘It’s a wonderful positive to get these musicians to link up with these students and create a life-long bond with them,’ said Amy Cullen, manager of education and community engagement for the Orlando Philharmonic…. Jephthe Belizaire … a junior at Evans High School, plays clarinet [and is taking] one-on-one lessons with musicians with the Orlando Philharmonic. He said the lessons have already helped how he plays but also … ‘helped me cope with a lot of things, including stress with a lot of classes,’ Belizaire said…. Scott Evans, Visual and Performing Arts Director for Orange County Public Schools, said … OCPS is working to expand the Arts Beyond the Screen program further to reach more students.”
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