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In October I will be temporarily leaving my perfectly wonderful life as a violinist in The Cleveland Orchestra to become a student again, to live in Boston and go to school, learning all about the...
View ArticleBoston Globe Article
On Last Sunday's front page of the Boston Globe, this article and video were published.It is still very hard to imagine myself doing all that, but the thought is "mega cool", as they would say in...
View ArticleA new Fellow (barely) getting her bearings in Boston
Dear Friends!Where to even begin......it's the end of week 2 in Boston. I can tell that someday I will love looking back to this time: "Remember being lost in Boston all the time those first weeks? At...
View ArticleThe Fascinating Stage
Erik says I am way behind on blogging! Hmmm, I must now confess to you, mysterious reader, that I am uncomfortable blogging! There is so much type in our digital lives! How could my silly thoughts be...
View ArticleA trip to Outer Space: our week in West Baltimore
"ANANSI THE SPIDER"Our concert with the "ORCHKids"See a slide show of our week in Baltimore:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06_uAv8JWagThis was the week we were waiting for: getting out and doing it...
View ArticleNews from the End of Semester One!!
SEMESTER ONEof this incredible journey is almost OVER!I am joyfully and utterly overwhelmed by this year and can't WAIT for the time in Venezuela to put this all together...mainly my BRAIN!What's been...
View ArticleLUCKY LUCKY LUCKY!!
Occasionally what you do coincides with what the Universe would like to get done.This blog is a tribute to all the wonderful people who have contributed to the amazing fact that in 3 short months we...
View ArticleVenezuela At Last!!!
Click here to see why the world celebrates El Sistema! To be here and see how this all happened is the culmination of this great Fellowship year!!We have been in CARACAS,VENEZUELA observingEL...
View ArticleThe Bigger Picture of El Sistema
TWO WEEKS, TWO CITIES: MERIDA AND BARQUISIMETOWithout a shadow of doubt, to see "El Sistema", you have to see more than Caracas. At every stop anew, I find myself trying to answer for myself that...
View ArticleEL SISTEMA@RAINEY in CLEVELAND LAUNCHED!!
ES@Rainey Conductor and Violist Darnell Weaver teaches orchestra today.EL SISTEMA@RAINEY LAUNCHES!!3 short weeks ago, we started daily classes at Rainey Institute in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland...
View ArticleEl Sistema@Rainey Year Two!
Year Two brings Fantastic Change: WE HAVE GROWN! The team consists now of:A full-time program coordinator, Brittany Kubiak who takes on all the details of the daily programming and conducts the...
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