The Cherry Lane Music Foundation, Inc. is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit corporation founded to enhance the lives of music students and their teachers. Currently, our primary initiative is to publish the award-winning educational music magazine and listening program, Music Alive!
Our Mission
Music Alive! uses the life-changing power of music
to inspire teenagers to be passionate learners.
In service of this mission, we develop every Music Alive! resource and activity to allow us to positively impact music education in five fundamental ways:
• We close the gap between the contemporary world of music and the music classroom.
• We deliver standards-based music education via materials that are uniquely exciting to teenage students.
• We partner with music teachers in the effort to enhance students’ classroom music experience.
• We expand students’ awareness and appreciation of musical styles and genres, music history, music-related technology, and careers in music.
• We join forces with like-minded music industry organizations and companies for the creation of legislative, philanthropic, and public relations initiatives that support music education.
About Music Alive!
Now in its 27th season, Music Alive! is a unique educational music magazine and listening program developed for music classes in Grades 5 through 10. More similar to music magazines on the newsstands than to traditional educational fare, Music Alive! grabs the attention of over 400,000 teenagers across the country.
Our classroom materials bring the excitement and breadth of today's music world into the classroom, covering everything from Rachmaninoff to rap, from bluegrass to bebop. Artists recently featured on our cover have included Carrie Underwood, Musiq Soulchild, Plain White T’s, Bo Bice, Nickelback, and Mary J. Blige. Regular features also cover world music, film music, orchestras and smaller ensembles, music-related technology, careers in music, and special achievements by music students.
Because we are sensitive to the commercialism that is constantly bombarding young people, Music Alive! has always been and will always be advertisement-free. In addition, we screen every piece of music featured in our pages to insure that it is age- and classroom-appropriate. The Music Alive! materials are available by subscription only.
To learn more and view sample pages: www.musicalive.com
To view our “edu-tainment” site for tweens and teens: www.mymusicalive.com