‘Make the music dance’: How a Staten Island high school brings performing arts to life


STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Paul Corn recently instructed the students in his jazz ensemble to “make the music dance.”

Many times throughout the class, Corn told his students to stop playing their instrument and start over — because he could hear someone breathing into a saxophone too hard, or because someone didn’t drag out a note long enough, or he didn’t feel the harmony among the instruments.


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