[musictlk] Braille Music

[Linda Mentink]

From: "Performing Arts Division" <perform at padnfb.org>


 > 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.
 >
 > =======================================================
 > 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
 > 
<http://www.blindmusicstudent.org/summer_institute_2009_brochure.htm>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.
 >
 > <mailto:info at blindmusicstudent.org>info at blindmusicstudent.org or 
203-366-3300, x229.
 >
 > =======================================================
 >
 >
 > Bill McCann
 > Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992
 > <http://www.DancingDots.com>www.DancingDots.com
 > Tel: [001] 610-783-6692
 >
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