Boston Globe 6/27/10: Applause for schools keeping music at core. Whether it’s marching band, jazz, choir, or music theory, if you offer it they will play. At least that’s the experience in the Belmont school district, which was recently named one of the country’s Best Communities for Music Education, along with public schools in Weston, Westborough, Wayland, and the Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School in Franklin.