7 Schools Get $150,000 Worth of Instruments
Helping to bolster music programs in Los Angeles schools, a music education campaign donated $150,000 worth of instruments to seven elementary schools.
Executives from the “VH1 Save the Music” program presented an average of 30 instruments, including cellos, flutes and trumpets, to each of the seven schools, said Bob Morrison, spokesman for VH1.
The recipients are 52nd Street Elementary School, 75th Street Elementary, Holmes Avenue Elementary, West Athens Elementary, 92nd Street Elementary, Russell Elementary and Betty Plasencia Elementary.
Principal Berta Cochario of Plasencia said her school in Echo Park has not had a music program for 10 years. With the donated instruments and new funds, she said, she will hire a full-time music teacher.
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