For Morris Hayes and a community of artists and educators, playing the music is only part of the answer. So is inspiring the next generation, showing them what it takes and giving them opportunities. If they can see it, they can be it. It’s an idea at the heart of Crescendo Detroit, a nonprofit providing free after-school and summer programs that use music and dance, academics, life skills, and mentorship to nurture Detroit young people ages 5 to 18: let them see excellence u

Detroit's musical legacy didn't begin when the world discovered its artists. It began much earlier—in classrooms, rehearsal rooms and neighborhoods where young people had the chance to learn. Detroit Harmony is working on what comes next. WHEN MUSIC WAS PART OF GROWING UP IN DETROIT Damien Crutcher remembers when seeing kids walking home from school carrying instrument cases was nothing unusual in Detroit. His own instrument was often among them. Crutcher began playing trumpe

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Meet the acclaimed musicians coming out to support Crescendo

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