Creative Collaboration: A Reflection on My Week in Baltimore
“I don’t want this experience to end!” I uttered these words at least a half dozen times during the long car ride back from Baltimore to...
Creative Connections Workshop in Baltimore
Creative Connections brings together workshop leaders, students and community members to collaboratively compose and perform a new piece...
Sistema Fellows visit iCAN in Santa Barbara
Following the Take a Stand Conference, the Sistema Fellows visited iCAN in Santa Barbara for an afternoon of music-making. An El...
Rediscovering "the Good Stuff"
The 2014 “Take a Stand” symposium brought together activists from the United States and beyond. As people from many cultures convened to...
Attending the "Take a Stand" Symposium
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Take A Stand Symposium in LA, hosted by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Longy School of...
El Sistema's Heartfelt Culture
I will admit that I went to Venezuela free of expectations, having only the simple desire to absorb as much as possible from El Sistema’s...
My Residency in Venezuela
I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Venezuela in November and December 2013 to teach in the music education program, El Sistema. ...
