During the first week of our summer music camp, SWAN teacher Lisa Fairman gave the older students the assignment of creating a camp theme song. The...
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Musician or not, music has an impact on our mental health. Simply listening to music can change our state of mind and improve our well-being. It certainly does for the...
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Our 2023 six-week summer music camp serving 30 children was a tremendous success. The students received 165 hours of instruction, including choir, garage band, movement, solfege,...
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Yesterday evening, staff member Sarah Ziegler took a joy-filled drive around downtown Lancaster. Her mission was to deliver 11 backpacks filled with school supplies to our...
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What is a day at SWAN's music camp like? All the students start with our morning meeting. Here we talk about our goals and expectations for...
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The 2023 summer camp students’ first performance was for the Evergreen Estates residents in Lancaster, PA. As the children came off the bus full of nervous...
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The lyrics of “Brave” by Sara Bareilles echo into the hallway. A private teacher quietly enters the classroom. As the door shuts and students register that...
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On May fourteenth, I had the privilege of driving two musically gifted brothers to the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra’s Mother’s Day concert. This wasn’t the first time I’d...
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Many of us at Stony Brook Elementary School have had the privilege of working with Mike Miller for all/some of the 20 years he taught here....
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SWAN is grateful for the generous support of $15,000 received from The Kids Trust Fund, a charitable fund of the Greater Harrisburg Community Foundation, a regional...
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