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Public Invited to Student Concert on Tuesday

MASD joins 40th anniversary celebration of ‘Music in Our Schools’

By Submitted Report
The Tube City Almanac
March 03, 2025
Posted in: Announcements, McKeesport and Region News

MAHS students Monae Chance, clarinet, and Emma Cantu, bass clarinet, prepare for Music in Our Schools Month. (Submitted photo courtesy McKeesport Area School District)

McKeesport Area School District will celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Music in Our Schools” month with a free concert at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the high school auditorium, 1960 Eden Park Blvd.

A district spokeswoman said the concert will feature several instrumental and vocal groups from the middle and high school, as well as combined band and orchestras from both age levels.

“Music in Our Schools Month” was created in 1985 by the non-profit National Association for Music Education, formerly the Music Educators National Conference. The group, representing 58,000 music teachers from all 50 states, was founded in 1907.

Sixth-grader Brayden Hoover practices violin. (Submitted photo courtesy McKeesport Area School District)

McKeesport Area students begin their general music education with Chris Davidson at Francis McClure Elementary and Amy Urban at Twin Rivers Elementary, the district said.

This year, the district has two new music teachers who were hired for the middle school this past October, a spokeswoman said. Both Liam Horgan, the orchestra instructor, and Noah Crawford, the band instructor, are in their first year of teaching and are practicing and preparing the middle school musicians daily.

Horgan said he is happy with the way that high school musicians from the Tri-M music honor society have helped their younger counterparts.

“The Tri-M students are working with the middle school kids, mentoring them and showing them different techniques and how to better learn and play the music together in a concert setting,” Horgan said.

High school music teachers include Drew DeCarlo, Sarah Persin and Beth Eger, according to the district. DeCarlo and Persin also work with the elementary students interested in beginning band and orchestra.

Originally published March 03, 2025.

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