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 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 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…