Pardon Me, I’m a Rock Star!

A music video that features students and staff from Clear View Elementary was formally unveiled at a special “Red Carpet Premiere” recently held at the school. Beaming students channeled their inner “rock star” to strut the red carpet, pose at a “VIP” photo booth, sign autographs, and sing along with recording artist Mike Cothrine as […]

Switchfoot To Foster a Wave of Student Musicians

As a beginning musician, sixth grade student Arturo Palomares knows learning the saxophone takes practice and patience. Some notes are still a challenge, especially in front of an audience. In this case, the audience included Grammy award-winning band members from Switchfoot, who were at John J. Montgomery Elementary recently to provide inspiration and hear Arturo […]

Music Education Continues its Comeback in Chula Vista

Student Bruno Bello recalls how difficult it was to find something that was both challenging and enjoyable. He wasn’t into sports, and he wasn’t into school. The year was 2010, and he was despondent about the divorce of his parents. Then, he discovered music. It changed his life, he says, in ways he could not […]

Trumpeting the Sounds of a Success

VH1 Save The Music Foundation Awards CVESD with first grant in multi-year music education rebuild CHULA VISTA, Ca.—Sixth grader Luna Enriquez recalls the excitement she felt in holding her first violin. She loved the “beautiful noise” the instrument made when she plucked a string. Luna was among a pioneering group of elementary students who began […]

District Music Education Program: Sound of Success

Otay Elementary parent Sandra Cadena and her family faced a difficult choice. Her husband took a job in Long Beach. Daughter Vanessa was deeply involved in her school’s Community Opus music education program. What to do? The family chose an extraordinary sacrifice. Cadena and her daughter are staying put in Chula Vista, and her husband […]