Sister Cities Girlchoir
Exploring Partnerships: Working Together to Enhance Community Engagement
Rebecca Shasberger, Founder, Director, and cellist of Renovare Music; Global Leaders Program alumna
As the one-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic approaches, many musicians continue to be isolated from their communities. Lockdowns, travel bans, and limits on in-person gatherings all pose challenges to creating meaningful interactions through music. Yet the importance of engaging with our communities through music has never been more apparent.
In Alliance: More than the Sum of Their Parts
Karen Deschere, Executive Director, Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts
“Hey, did you hear that other group playing our song? I wonder how they knew it?” said one incredulous young cellist to another, after hearing another El Sistema group play “Go Tell Aunt Rhody” at the Fiddle and FaLaLa Fest.
With that one simple question, a child’s world opened up. If he had never heard “Go Tell Aunt Rhody” before he learned it as part of his journey with the Paterson Music Project, how could he guess that anyone else could play it?
