Frank Machos is the executive director of the Philadelphia School District's Office of Arts and Creative Learning, and he's been playing saxophone since he was a child, 35 years ago.
He's been playing When It Comes to School, a piece he's performing four times a week through April 10, as part of Rehearsing Philadelphia, "a wide-ranging, city-wide public performance project."
Ari Benjamin Meyers, who oversees more than 200 artists and performers through more than 60 performances in 10 locations, calls it "even hard to know what to call it," the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
"I sometimes call it a festival. That's not quite right," he says. "It's public art exhibitions, but that's also not quite right. It's always a good sign when you say, 'Gee, what is this, actually?'" Read the Entire Article
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