By: Mick Jacobs
Music
makes us impulsive. It makes you want to dance, to sing, to cry, to speak
out; ultimately, music wants you to be part of the experience.
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A new Northwestern University study provides the first direct evidence that a community music program for at-risk youth has a biological effect on children’s developing nervous systems.
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Congratulations to our beneficiary program partner organization Notes for Notes on the grand opening of their second Los Angeles studio location! This is the fifth studio from Notes for Notes. Earlier this year, we partnered with this amazing organization to help build one of their studios in Detroit. Currently, funding is still needed to repair the roof at the Boys and Girls club before construction on the music studio can start. Learn more about the organization here.
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Today, August 19, 2014, is World Humanitarian Day! Show your support for the inspiring change-makers around the world and learn how you can make an impact on humanitarian crises around the world - http://worldhumanitarianday.org.
Last year, David Guetta partnered with the United Nations to create a social media campaign #TheWorldNeedsMore for World Humanitarian Day. Watch the inspiring "One Voice" track video below.
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Last year, David Guetta partnered with the United Nations to create a social media campaign #TheWorldNeedsMore for World Humanitarian Day. Watch the inspiring "One Voice" track video below.
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In their most recent newsletter, Movement gave a special shout-out to Give a Beat and our Music for Music Online Fundraising Campaign to raise funds for a Notes for Notes' free music studio in Detroit! Thank you for your continued support and love, Paxahau and Movement!
The Hall Pass Tour is a nationwide concert and event series for grades 6-12 designed to help kids from underserved schools and community centers get excited about leveraging higher learning to pursue their dreams. Website / Facebook
I think that the only thing that can combat that feeling of isolation and aloneness and depression is hope - Rob (a participant in Carnegie Hall's music program for inmates)
Carnegie Hall brings musical performances and workshops into
correctional facilities to contribute to inmates’ rehabilitation, preparing
them to return to life outside of prison. Carnegie Hall’s work at Sing Sing Correctional Facility
reaches 1,200 inmates and guards each year. Selected inmates participate in a yearlong composition
workshop led by composer Daniel Levy. These men earn a place in the program by demonstrating a
commitment to education and personal development. Learn more about Carnegie Hall's program here.
We recently heard about Beats, Rhymes & Relief, a non-profit utilizing the arts to raise awareness and support for worldwide humanitarian relief efforts. Beats, Rhymes & Relief harnesses the power of cultural diplomacy to raise the profile of global issues through high-profile public music concerts. Their first concert in 2013 raised funds to support the humanitarian crisis in Syria. Learn more on their website and follow them on Facebook!
Our online auction Music for Music closed last night. Thank you so much to all of the generous donors American Music & Sound, Audio-Technica, C.A.Y.A Smokehouse Grill, Crew Love, Cyberoptix TieLab, Electric Forest, Golf Clap, Ibiza Love Child, Jenn Xerri, Mi Casa Holiday, NDATL Muzik, Paxahau, React Presents, Roland, Sampled Detroit, Sennheiser, Sonos, SoundCloud, SubPac, Unfuck the World, Wantickets, Whet Travel, participants and promoters that made the auction a success! Through your support we were able to raise close to $5,000, a portion of which will go towards the construction of a Notes for Notes’ after-school music studio at a Detroit Boys & Girls Club location! Stay tuned for more updates.
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Check out the video highlights from our event, A Positive Spin, last December!
A Positive Spin from VIDEO-SERVER on Vimeo.
March 19, 2014
Notes for Notes is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
dedicated to providing youth with FREE access to musical instruments,
instruction and recording studio environments so that music may become a
profoundly positive influence in their lives. They build, equip and staff
after-school recording studios called MusicBoxes: positive, safe, and inspiring
recording studio environments that offer youth the opportunity to explore,
create and record music for FREE.
The MusicBoxes are drop-in studios offering free instruction
and access to guitars, basses, drums, keyboards/synths, DJ turntables, computer
workstations with music creation software and a full recording studio.
MusicBoxes are located at Boys and Girls Clubs in Santa Barbara, CA;
Nashville, TN; Santa Monica, CA; and coming soon to Ventura, CA and Detroit,
MI. Please visit the Musicbox
location page to find the MusicBox closest to you.
Notes for Notes was founded on the core belief that music is
the universal language of humankind, and has the power to transcend virtually
any barrier—be it economic, cultural, racial, or societal. At the heart of the
organization is a dedication to the relationships formed through music. The organization
makes a point NOT to censor lyrics as it is the freedom of expression and
respect for the creativity of others that drives an open environment in the
studio. Music is an incredibly powerful means of inspiring collaboration and
connection and it is these relationships that will have the most impact in a
young person’s life.
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March 18, 2014
After a long day at school, a half-dozen teenage girls, all carrying developmental disabilities, mental illnesses and horrendous childhood emotional baggage, trudge through the snow and cold in Bartlett, lured by the promise that Dalphne Sommario is going to add some joy to their lives.
Embracing the pressure, the 32-year-old Sommario unpacks a powerful force — her laptop with old portable speakers and a diverse library of songs.
"Music," Sommario says, "is amazing."
February 6, 2014
Sam Cooke and the Song that 'Almost Scared Him', NPR Staff, NPR, Feb. 1, 2014, http://www.npr.org/2014/02/01/268995033/sam-cooke-and-the-song-that-almost-scared-him.
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Earlier this week, NPR featured a beautifully written short piece on Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come”. Catch the full article and podcast here.
"It was less work than any song he'd ever written," [Cooke biographer Peter] Guralnick says. "It almost scared him that the song — it was almost as if the song were intended for somebody else. He grabbed it out of the air and it came to him whole, despite the fact that in many ways it's probably the most complex song that he wrote. It was both singular — in the sense that you started out, 'I was born by the river' — but it also told the story both of a generation and of a people."
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"A Change Is Gonna Come" was released on the album Ain't That Good News in March of 1964. The civil rights movement picked up on it immediately, but most of Cooke's audience did not — mostly because it wasn't selected as one of the first singles and because Cooke only played the song before a live audience once.
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Guralnick says "A Change Is Gonna Come" is now much more than a civil rights anthem. It's become a universal message of hope, one that does not age.
"Generation after generation has heard the promise of it. It continues to be a song of enormous impact," he says. "We all feel in some way or another that a change is gonna come, and he found that lyric. It was the kind of hook that he always looked for: The phrase that was both familiar but was striking enough that it would have its own originality. And that makes it almost endlessly adaptable to whatever goal, whatever movement is of the moment.
January 30, 2014
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Last night, Grammy award-winning Esperanza Spalding and non-profit Human Rights First hosted a night of performance and discussion calling for the closure of Guantanamo Bay. Watch the live performance - Spotlight on Guantanamo. Back in November 2013, Esperanza also launched a music video titled "We Are America" (video below) urging Congress to close Guantanamo responsibly.
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January 24, 2014
Colin Moynihan, The Revolution Will Have Life Music, NY Times, November 17, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/nyregion/the-revolution-will-have-live-music.html?_r=0.
Colin Moynihan, The Revolution Will Have Life Music, NY Times, November 17, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/nyregion/the-revolution-will-have-live-music.html?_r=0.
The Rude Mechanical Orchestra has been using music to strategically challenge power for nearly a decade. Read more about how their showing their solidarity with protestors, picketers and change-makers.
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January 22, 2014
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The Harmony Project is a music program for inner city kids in Los Angeles that is brining quality music instruction and ensemble playing to children who otherwise would not have access to it. They partnered with a neurobiologist to study the impact of music training on the learning skills of poor children.
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January 15, 2014
Radio Netherlands' My Song showcases the personal stories behind the songs of Africa’s most compelling musicians. Songs featured include one by Rwandan singer Jean Paul Samputu, who fled Rwanda during the genocide in 1994 and his song "Twararutashye" translates as "We returned to our home". Another moving song is by Zimbabwean singer Rutendo Machiridza who turned to music to deal with the sexual abuse she suffered and uses music as a way to reach out to other victims of abuse. Listen to these moving tunes and others at My Song.
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