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• This fall, the EMU School of Music & Dance will host over 500 high school musicians for Honors Orchestra, Choir, and Band. 
  
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  EMU Honor Choir
  EMU Honor Band
  EMU Honor Orchestra
  
• Music Education Alum Jayme Anderson Shaves Head to Support Student with Cancer

  Alumna Jayme Anderson (BME, Music Education, 2002) teaches music at Randall Elementary School in Taylor. When she learned that her student Roza Williams was going through cancer treatments and had shaved her head, Ms. Anderson decided to support Roza by shaving her head too. 

  Roza told WDIV, "I'm 9 years old and I’m in third grade. I'm happy because my teacher Ms. Anderson, she makes me feel beautiful with these headbands."

  "I didn’t want school to be her trauma like it was for me," Anderson said. "I made a video the week before just explaining to her what I was going to do and just to build her back up so she could walk through those doors the first day. Then I made a video of myself shaving my head the night before school."

  "It made me really happy to know that I’m not alone in the school," said Williams.

  Read the full story at WDIV / clickondetroit

• The School of Music & Dance celebrated the establishment of two scholarship funds that will benefit EMU’s string students in the School of Music and Dance, the Shing Cheng Seetoo Endowed Scholarship in Orchestral Strings and the Zhiwen Situ Cello Scholarship. The scholarships will benefit the EMU Symphony Orchestra by supporting student musicians who play the violin, viola, cello, and double bass in the School of Music & Dance. Read about the concert event here
  
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