At 9 years old, Aida Ade heard the violin for the first time. She had just moved with her family from the north side of St. Louis city to Ferguson-Florissant. In this unfamiliar, nearly all-white ...
Muscatine vocalist Allyson Peniston was 4 years old when she first discovered the multi-faceted tones of opera. “I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I want to sing like that,’” she recalls. “I’d imitate that ...