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1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · By LISA RESNICK

   Children get hands on look at classical music (opens the original)

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   YOUNGSTOWN -- The children at Students Motivated by the Arts on Thursday weren't sitting quietly listening to classical music. They were banging on drums. Some were moving, while others were drawing what they heard. A few were discovering that music isn't something that simply comes out of speakers or is performed by people dressed in black on a distant stage. It is something they can make. The evening was a listening party hosted by SMARTS created in partnership with the Youngstown Symphony Orc

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2. Article · Jul 18, 2026 · By Lisa Resnick

   The more you bounce, the more you will be bounced (opens the original)

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   "The more you bounce, the more you will be bounced." I will never forget hearing those words as I was learning to ride a horse when I was younger. At the time, the lesson was simple. If I bounced around in the saddle, the horse would bounce me right back. The less steady I was, the rougher the ride became. And the more pain I experienced. The instructor wasn't trying to teach me a life lesson that day. She was simply trying to keep me from falling off. But years later, those words have become on

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