Professional violinist
Martin Agee has been a professional violinist for 30 years – his most favorite audience are animals at a local dog shelter where he volunteers is time.
Professional violinist
Martin Agee has been a professional violinist for 30 years – his most favorite audience are animals at a local dog shelter where he volunteers is time.
Young Audiences
2020 National Conference – Young Audiences Arts for Learning. March 25-27, Nopsi Hotel, New Orleans – Arts from the Start: An Exploration of Early Childhood Learning. This year’s conference will explore timely issues around the theme of early childhood learning.
Call for Workshop Proposals
Deadline: January 15, 2020
March 25-27, 2020
NOPSI Hotel
317 Baronne St., New Orleans, LA 70112
Proposals are now being accepted for workshop sessions that address the conference theme, or relate to other priority topics as detailed in the 2020 Conference Workshop Session RFP Guidelines and Application document.
To Submit a Proposal, please download, review, and fill out the 2020 RFP Guidelines and Application document. Email the completed application form to Lauren Altschuler (lauren@ya.org) by 5:00 pm ET on January 15, 2020. Incomplete applications will not be considered. You will receive email confirmation upon receipt of your proposal.
Evaluation and Selection of workshop proposals will be completed by a Conference Advisory Committee. Lead Workshop Session Presenters will be notified via email of the final selection by February 3, 2020.
Questions? Please contact Lauren Altschuler at lauren@ya.org or 212.860.1563 ext. 107.
Stay tuned for the Official 2020 Conference Site, conference.youngaudiences.org, for the latest information, including how to book accommodations through YA’s room block at NOPSI Hotel, where workshop sessions will be held.
Songs across societies
Scientists at Harvard published a study on music as a cultural product, which examines what features of song tend to be shared across societies.
We sometimes talk about cultures and communities in terms of the music that represent them. I have been moved to tears more than once while listening to a song while visiting another country. One time while visiting a Japanese elementary school I looked down the row of American guests in an outdoor setting and there wasn’t a dry eye in the group.
The Harvard scientists set out to address big questions: Is music a cultural universal? If that’s a given, which musical qualities overlap across disparate societies? If it isn’t, why does it seem so ubiquitous? But they needed a data set of unprecedented breadth and depth. Over a five-year period, the team hunted down hundreds of recordings in libraries and private collections of scientists half a world away.
“We are so used to being able to find any piece of music that we like on the internet,” said Mehr, who is now a principal investigator at Harvard’s Music Lab. “But there are thousands and thousands of recordings buried in archives.
The entire article is at THIS LINK.
Puppetry, Storytelling, Music
The Sound of Silence
OK, I admit it – this song takes me back many years. Never gets old for me!
Solid Potato Salad
A real treat – amazing dancing and singing from a different era.
Bellini Opera Aria-amazing
Maestro by Illogic Studios and Bloom Pictures is a lush, short film about beautifully animated woodland creatures putting aside creature differences, to perform together a gorgeous, revolutionary operatic aria under a full moon.
Beautifully Animated Woodland Creatures Perform a Gorgeous Bellini Opera Aria Under a Full Moon