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Day after day Mary Feldman saw
teens stand about outside her 1 at the King Street Palace, an
entertainment center in Charleston. She knew they attended a nearby middle
school and were 2 from class---again.
Feldman believed that if
someone didn’t 3 out to these teenagers, they would soon
lose all 4 in school. So one afternoon she went
outside to
5
with them.
“I asked what 6 them,” she says. “Their response were
always the 7 : music, art and sports.” The
42-year-old businesswoman 8 a music program would be a great way to
keep 9 kids interested in learning.
Then Feldman found the
middle school principal with her 10 for Blues in the Schools---a program that
would bring 11 into the schools to perform and teach. He
liked her idea, but said she’d have to raise the 12 .
Local businesses came to her
13 . In four months they’d donated(捐赠)
about $15,000--- 14 to bring in Billy Branch, a great blues
harmonica(乐器)
player, who had 15 a similar program in Chicago schools.
During Branch’s three-week after-school class in Charleston, 16 listened to music and learned to write
and perform the blues 17 . “We needed skilled musicians who
wanted to 18 the tradition to younger people,” Feldman
says.
The next year Feldman
increased the numbers of Blues. Now 19 5,000 middle and elementary school
students in a dozen cities 20 the country take part.