[musictlk] Summer Braille Music Institute in Philadelphia Invites Applications [Cross-posted]

[Dancing Dots]

Please pass this message on to blind musicians, their teachers and families.
For motivated, young blind musicians, attendance at this Summer institute
represents a genuine opportunity to prepare for higher education in music.

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Music students who read contracted English braille and who are in their last
years of high school or already in college, are invited to request
applications for the National Resource Center's Summer braille Music
Institute.  The program will be held July 19-25 at the Overbrook School for
the Blind in  Philadelphia.  Focused around developing ability to read
braille music and to submit theory assignments in print, this intensive
provides braille music practice catered to each student's needs, systematic
instruction in Dancing Dots' Lime Aloud and GOODFEEL software, and theory
classes which progress from basic concepts to harmonic analysis.

Applications have several steps, including submission of an audition, and
recommendation forms to be completed by teachers.  Final Enrollment is
limited to six to eight students.  Additionally, one internship may be
available for a sighted music or vision teacher or a sighted college student
committed to learning and helping out during the program.  

application deadline is May 14.  Further information is at
www.blindmusicstudent.org/summer_institute_2009_brochure.htm

The best way to request an application package is to E-mail or call David
Goldstein, director of the National Resource Center for Blind Musicians.

info at blindmusicstudent.org or 203-366-3300, x229. 

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Bill McCann 
Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992
www.DancingDots.com
Tel: [001] 610-783-6692

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