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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ellington should be featured all over DC. [/quote]

This is a great point. I see many promos for Wilson and Deal musicals (which are really impressive!). Five (six) months into the school year - no play? Art show? Fall dance production? Either they have really bad promotion channels are appealing only to their pipeline funders. I live four blocks from the palace, I mean "place." My single encounter with DE students was Halloween when they came my door. Super-nice kids, loved my 9yos costume an in-character acting and won my heart with appreciation for our piano visible from the front door. But where are the performances at EVERY SINGLE public gathering? [/quote]

Are you saying Ellington students are supposed to perform at some kind of public gathering?  If they're selling out performances within the Ellington community, are they supposed to market for some particular reason?  The school has a website with a calendar that lists all performances.

Ellington exists to educate students.  It's in demand- my child's program took fewer than 1 in 4 applicants.  Many students there come from low-SES homes and really awful feeder schools.  Ellington serves them well.

If community members want to take advantage of it as a cultural offering, no one is stopping you, but I'm not seeing why the school has some special obligation to seek you out. [/quote]

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