Quarter Notes

The beginning of the school year marks the end of our annual cycle. This year, we not only met our year-end deadline, we beat it! Thanks to the unparalleled success of this year’s instrument drive, we filled most of the needs of all qualifying music programs. Of the instruments donated last March and repaired in the interim, 594 were in the hands of Colorado children when 41 band directors and orchestra conductors picked up their batons for the first downbeat of the new school year. And for the first time, instrument donations outpaced instrument applications. That means extra brass, strings and woodwinds are waiting in the wings – ready to be repaired and awarded as part of the 2022 instrument drive.

Read the complete September edition of QUARTER NOTES here.

We gratefully note that more instruments were donated in 2021 than in any of the previous five years! We would like to thank the 776 individuals who generously parted with one or more of their instruments, including Rocky and Dorothy DeNiro of Pueblo, Colorado (pictured here at their home) who gifted us with 100 horns and woodwinds from their private collection.

Read the June 2021 edition of Quarter Notes here.

Read the full MARCH 2021 edition of Quarter Notes here.

October 2020 issue of Quarter Notes tells the story of a successful drive despite unprecedented challenges.

Read it here!

Our July, 2020 Special Edition proves that “Even in hard times, people continue to spread kindness and goodwill.”