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Featured Experience
 A Day at the
Curtis Institute
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Vicki Powell is a young violist who studies with Roberto Diaz at Philadelphia’s prestigious Curtis Institute of Music. We tag along with Vicki as she goes to harmony class, works with Diaz, plays with the school orchestra and a chamber group, and socializes at the school’s traditional afternoon tea.
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Recent Stories
 The President's House
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Recent excavations have shown that the Liberty Bell Pavilion is built over the site of slave quarters at President George Washington's house at 6th and Market Streets. Those excavations have uncovered artifacts, and a monument to the house and its slaves will be built on the site.
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The President's House in Philadelphia
 Montier Family House
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Two extremely rare portraits of newly-wed Philadelphia African Americans with mixed-race blood have been unveiled by descendants of the 19th-century couple and displayed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Also, an emotional visit by a Montier family descendant to the ancestral Montier home.
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Rare portraits reflect black family's legacy
 Settlement Music School
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This school was founded in 1908 as the music program of the College Settlement in the Southwark section of Philadelphia. Today, it has grown into the largest community school of the arts in America, with six locations around the Delaware Valley. People of all ages are invited to attend, whether or not they aspire to a career in music.
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Settlement Music School
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