Locations For Music And Wellness Activities
This list is intended to give you ideas about locations for music and wellness presentations. It may help remind you of other possibilities for partnering and for reaching new audiences. Of course there may be many other opportunities in your area! Cancer groups An interactive presentation sponsored by Reach to Recovery for cancer survivors and volunteers. Cancer Caring…
Design of a Program for Refugees
Creating a music program for refugees involves taking the time to doing a lot of learning, information gathering and listening, as well as visiting areas of the city that may be very unfamiliar to you. The culture and traditions as well as the language of the refugees may also be new to you and will require some time…
Designing Your Music Event
Here is a quick way to develop the program for a community engagement event. By answering the following questions, you will be able to determine more effectively what music and interactive experiences are appropriate for your audience. I have filled out this template in italics for an imagined Children’s Hospital event. Who do you expect to be your…
Understanding Inequality
When you are designing a pilot music program, at some point you may find it useful to have at least a rudimentary grasp of issues around inequality and poverty, a complex and somewhat overwhelming area of study. A good place to start is ‘ Key Issues in Poverty and Inequality: http://inequality.stanford.edu/key-issues. Depending on where you want to initiate…
Music And Movement
What is another way for our audiences and our communities to engage in the music listening experience? In a word: Eurhythmics, also known as Dalcroze Eurhythmics: the active embodiment of music rhythm, tempo, phrasing and melodic contour, dynamics and musical expression using movement. Eurhythmics can be of great benefit when working with: Students with special needs as a sensorimotor treatment….
Script For A Presentation To Medical Students On Music And Its Uses For Patients In Addressing Anxiety, Post-Op Recovery And Rehab
Introduction In July 1999 I was diagnosed with breast cancer through a routine mammogram. Over the next two months I had a biopsy, 3 diagnostic surgeries and a mastectomy, followed by four rounds of chemotherapy. At the 18-month mark I had a six-hour free-flap reconstruction and three months later the final touches on reconstruction. Soon after chemotherapy was…
Script And Playlist For A Successful Aging Presentation For Older Adults
A successful aging program often emphasizes stress reduction, participating in activities that strengthen connection with others and staying physically active. In keeping with those goals, in the sample program below, the group practices deep breathing, sings familiar songs together and does upper body movements to music. Background: They meet regularly for sessions on nutrition and maintaining an active…
Script For An Outpatient Ostomy Support Group Presentation At A Hospital
1. Introduce the sound of your instrument. Play familiar tunes as if warming up. I am introduced 2. Connect to the time of year and the location of the presentation. Thanks for coming. By the way, congratulations on your many wellness programs: The Cinco de Mayo 5K, your fitness lending library, your cardio jazzercise, salsa, the summer fitness…
Script For A Presentation For Over-21 Adults With Special Needs
PSO cellist Adam Liu and I were recently invited to do a 45-minute presentation for the first Woodlands Foundation Notes from the Heart Music Camp for adults over 21. Adam plays the erhu as well as the cello and I play violin and viola, so between us we had the potential to provide a wide range of sounds…
Sample Template For A Children’s Hospital Event
Location: such as The Atrium at Children’s Hospital Our possible goals for this session might be: to reduce stress and anxiety, uplift, help create a calming environment and take patients out of their stressful personal space for a while. Venue description, likely audience, acoustics. Describe: what is the ambient noise level? Are listeners seated or passing by? Who is listening? Contact person telephone, email…
Community Engagement Event Design
Questions when designing a Community Engagement events. What are the sponsor’s goals for the event such as addressing obesity, learning stress-reduction techniques or strengthening resilience? How will you address the sponsor’s goals through what you do in your presentation; e.g. have the audience experience the following: belly breathing, walking in place without and then with music, pretending to…
How To Provide Affordable Live Music In Your Healthcare Facilities
Creating a sustainable, low-cost collaboration of professional orchestral musicians, your local university’s music performance and arts administration students, and music therapists in your healthcare community. First, a little background: In 2000, with no budget, I began to develop the collaborative model we will be discussing today. In establishing and fostering the relationships between two of our major Pittsburgh…
Uses Of Music For Hospital Patients In The Hospital Setting
In your local children’s hospital musicians can work with resident music therapists to determine the best locations and opportunities for music events. Besides providing music for holidays, musicians could play for a pancake breakfast for families, or play in an atrium where video could be streamed to patient rooms or to areas where patients are immune compromised. Possible…
Introductory Open Letter On Why Start At Your Children’s Hospital
I (Penny Brill) have been traveling quite a bit lately to cities around the country, exchanging ideas with musicians about our outreach and subscription programs, discussing how we can best serve our communities in meaningful ways outside the concert hall. As we read about the changes in community support in one city after another, as we see funding…
What Is In Your Children’s Hospital Playbook?
Designing your music event: How do you determine what music should be in your playbook? Let’s look at a possible children’s hospital pancake breakfast which includes patients and their families. What is the setting? A large room with round tables where individual families are sitting and eating and a breakfast buffet at one end. Patients range in age…
Addressing Community Concerns Through Music
For decades symphony orchestra musicians worldwide have witnessed dramatic societal change in the communities around us, in many places observing increasing inequality, poverty, racial tension and community trauma. As concerned citizens we recognize an urgent moral obligation to develop community-based programs that address pressing social issues and serve the changing needs of our communities. Orchestras have already expanded…