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Mariachi Rising

Mexico's violin-driven folk music takes a starring role in American string-music education

2008 education guide

The young man had a shaved head, a surly attitude, and a brother in a gang. Even keeping him from dropping out of school seemed like a daunting task to Mark Fogelquist, a violinist teaching mariachi at Chula Vista High School in Southern California. "When I saw him walk into the class, I thought, 'This kid is bad news,'" Fogelquist recalls. "He won't finish high school." Today, that student is playing five nights a week with a professional mariachi group in Los Angeles and has been accepted into one of California's best universities. "He turned out to have tremendous musical ...

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