{"id":214169,"date":"2026-06-09T01:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214169\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:59:13","slug":"after-school-band-class-helps-philly-students-hit-a-high-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214169\/","title":{"rendered":"After-school band class helps Philly students hit a high note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; With 118 years of history, the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/settlementmusic.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Settlement Music School<\/a> continues to help local students hit a high note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One of its programs, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/settlementmusic.org\/music\/kids-teens\/specialized-programs\/music-education-pathways\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Music Education Pathways<\/a>, has been benefitting students for the past 10 years. It offers free afterschool programming including band, orchestra, choir, and drumline at 10 sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The program is supported by the William Penn Foundation. It has also received support from the Philadelphia Mayor&#8217;s Office of Education and PHMC, which allowed them to expand to two new schools this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Those schools are Forrest Elementary School and Anne Frank Elementary School in Northeast Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Watch the video above to catch a glimpse of the Music Education Pathways program in action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">To learn more about the Settlement Music School, visit their website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/videoClip\/19196148\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: Beloved teacher waves goodbye after 50 years at St. Margaret School<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A celebration half-a-century in the making could only scratch the surface of the impact Miss Lopresti has left on St. Margaret School in Narberth, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; With 118 years of history, the Settlement Music School continues to help local students&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93847,86767,7865,93845,69,71,70,93846,3315],"class_list":["post-214169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-afterschool-program","tag-instruments","tag-music","tag-music-education-pathways","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-settlement-school","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}