[Perform-talk] Fw: [midi-mag] Summer Braille Music Institute in Philadelphia Invites Applications [Cross-posted]

Christopher Wright chrisw1 at bestweb.net
Sat Feb 14 18:08:04 UTC 2009


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Subject: [midi-mag] Summer Braille Music Institute in Philadelphia Invites
Applications [Cross-posted]


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