Music Education for Social Impact
Re-birth: 18 Years of Music, Meaning, and Maturing
Elizabeth Njoroge, Founder and Executive Director, Art of Music Foundation
Many of the students we began with, back in 2006, are the first in their families to finish school, to attend university, and to build careers. The truly amazing part is that now, as young adults, their dream is not to escape. Their dream is to return. They come back to their communities—with purpose, compassion, and determination. More often than not, they come back to Ghetto Classics as teachers. Most of our current 42 teachers once sat where our students now sit. The learners have become leaders.
Which means, of course, that the program no longer “belongs” to me.
International ‘Chords of Harmony’ Resound in Barcelona
Tricia Tunstall, Advisory Editor and Co-Founder, The Ensemble, with “Chords of Harmony” participants
“Throughout the entire concert, the young musicians were free to laugh. And so was the audience…Music was being felt and lived in another sphere.”
Isn’t this a description of how we would all love our students to experience music, at some point in their learning journey?
