Appeared in the Gazette, Spring 2019 By Duff Peterson One Sunday afternoon in 1938, a group of New Trier students headed downtown to the Blackhawk Restaurant at 129 N. Wabash to see their favorite band, the Bob Crosby Orchestra. The Blackhawk was one of Chicago’s leading live-music venues at the time, and since a city […]
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Dorothy and David Dushkin: Pioneers of Winnetka Music Education
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Gazette Article by: Kaitlin A. Briggs, Ed. D. Appeared in the Gazette: Fall/Winter 2012 Kaitlin A. Briggs, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Southern Maine, spent a week at WHS researching Dorothy Dushkin. Intrigued by Dushkin’s journals, she visited to explore the community that attracted the Dushkins in 1930. In 1990 a […]