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Outreach

A Time For Wellness

Fri, Jan 1, 2021
by Drew McManus
I decided to move the articles originally scheduled for yesterday and today to next week. Considering the insurrection in Washington D.C., they are simply too disconnected. Instead, I want to focus today’s post on the need for wellness. If there was ever a time to remember music’s value as a coping mechanism, it’s now. To
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Using Documentary Filmmaking To Help Reconfirm Classical Music’s Relevance

Mon, Nov 11, 2018
by Drew McManus
The 11/3/2018 edition of The Baltimore Sun published an article by Tim Smith about a new documentary titled R.A.W. – From Destitute to Doctorate by Baltimore filmmakers Darren Durlach and David Larson. It’s a great overview article that introduces the documentary about tubist Richard White, who went from being homeless, eating from trash cans, and abandoned
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Reaching Common Ground

Mon, Apr 4, 2018
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 120
There’s a terrific article by Barry Courter in the 4/8/18 edition of the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Courter followed the musicians from Arts Capacity on their most recent program bringing live music to inmates at Georgia’s Walker State Prison. The result is a wonderfully detailed account of the program along with direct feedback from inmates attending the
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Classical Music Is Dying Because We Aren’t Dumbing It Down Enough

Tue, Oct 10, 2017
by Drew McManus
Dunce
Outreach was just as popular of a topic 100 years ago as it is today. Case in point, the October 1917 edition of The Etude magazine which published an article on p.644 by Mrs. Robert M. Rainey titled “How to Interest Unmusical People in Music.” We never learn Mrs. Rainey’s first name because after all,
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All The Good That Comes From Letting Go Of Control

Mon, May 5, 2017
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 086
If you’ve been searching for something to share with donors, board members, and patrons about the value of classical music, look no further than a program started by Chattanooga Symphony Concertmaster Holly Mulcahy that brings classical music to prisoners. Whatever you think a program like this might entail, do yourself a favor and put that
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