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For choral conductor Maria Ellis and her students, convening historic Sumner High鈥檚 first choir in decades has proved to be a challenging task 鈥� but also full of reward. 鈥淪t. Louis on the Air鈥� checks in with the choir as it prepares for a winter concert.

As Maria Ellis waited Monday afternoon to meet her students and help kick off a brand-new arts and activism focus at the recently saved school, Chuck Berry tunes played quietly through a speaker.

Growing up in north St. Louis County, where she was leading choirs by the time she was 12 years old, Maria Ellis remembers thinking about St. Louis鈥�