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…
Collaborating With Specialists
An orchestra often does presentations with musicians only. Let us examine the difference in impact and effectiveness if symphony musicians team with a music therapist. Let’s examine two presentations we did recently, one with musician performers only, the other with musicians and a music therapist, Emily Menhorn, MT-BC. Program I: The first of these presentations involved a symphony…
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…
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…