Life as a public school teacher has taught Robbin Gordon-Cartier to deal with the unpredictable. Three days before the concert at East Orange’s Cicely Tyson Community School, things were not going as planned. The auditorium was occupied, delaying their first rehearsal, and a couple students had pulled out of the show at the last minute.
“It isn’t where I want it to be but you can see most of the students are “off book,” she said as the students in the final class if the day plucked the an arrangement of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing.”…