Growing Jazz
in San Antonio, KRTU’s signature
initiative, is helping fulfill our mission
of giving back to the community. This
program allows K-12
students to experience jazz firsthand
through attending live concerts and
providing multiple opportunities for
students to receive personal instruction
from professional local musicians and
clinicians.
The purpose of
Growing Jazz in San Antonio is to help
fill a growing need for fine arts education
in our public schools by cultivating and
educating the next generation of jazz
musicians and fans through quality
enrichment programs for K-12 students.
The initiative
encompasses several different elements
taking place over the course of the school
year with the aim of providing a forum for
the practice and appreciation of jazz as an
art form: live concerts, instructional
workshops and promotion and development of
student performance.
As America’s oldest and truest original
art form, jazz deserves much more
recognition and funding than it typically
receives. Because commercial radio does not
consistently support straight-ahead jazz,
it’s up to non-commercial stations like KRTU
to bring jazz into the community. As a
listener-supported radio station, you play
an important role in our efforts to keep
jazz alive and well in San Antonio.
Growing
Jazz in San Antonio delivers the highest
quality jazz to the next generation of fans
and arts supporters, a group that needs
cultivation in order to ensure a bright
future for jazz in San Antonio and beyond. KRTU has
decided to invest in the community, and we
are able to do so because of the dedicated
support of our members.
