On Sept. 4, 1974, Doris Preucil walked into a room with dark walls, where birds flew indoors and a single light fixture hung from the ceiling. This room was on the top floor of a building, built circa ...

How should a music school celebrate its 50th anniversary? With music of course! Iowa City's Preucil School of Music is doing just that. Not that anything is new about that. In fact, during the last 50 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. When Doris Preucil started teaching violin lessons in Iowa City during the early '60s she never dreamed ...