[Menvi-discuss] Summer Braille Music Institute in Philadelphia Invites Applications [cross-posted]

[Bill]

(This summer program offers an excellent opportunity to the blind music
student who is seriously considering entering college to study music.  The
program is sponsored by the Music and Arts Center for the Handicapped and
administered by our friend and colleague, David Goldstein of their National
Resource Center for Blind Musicians.  Please see the end of the brief
announcement below for his contact details and direct all follow-up
inquiries to him.)


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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 15-21 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 students.  Application deadline is May 2.  Further
information is at www.blindmusicstudent.org/summer_institute.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.