Reference & Special Interest

Get inspired by NYC 5th graders from high poverty districts as they are taught  foxtrot, tango, rumba, meregue for a competition and grow into poised and motivated young people.  

When Jewish and Palestinian grade schoolers meet in a ballroom dance class in Jaffa, Israel, sparks fly. Pierre Dulaine is challenged to teach not just dance but the arts of communication and teamwork.

250 kids from 25 nations come together to rehearse and dance Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in a concert with the Berlin Philharmonic.

Music has the power to overcome fear, prejudice, animosity and build understanding through a common artful purpose. Upper elementary children in NYC and Jaffa learn to dance TOGETHER, and enjoy it and each other.

Vienna Boy's Choir has survived for over 500 years. Visit the boys at school, watch them rehearse, record, sing in chapel, perform an opera, travel, play sports.

A live-action retelling of how the best-loved carol was written on a snowy night in 1818, and how it has affected generations since.

by Alice M. Hammel and Ryan M. Hourigan. Structuring class experiences and creating effective team-teaching strategies.

Soundtrack from Paradise Road movie using the music written down by the WWII POW women interned in Sumatra.

by Helen Colijn.  Music overcame despair for the women imprisoned on Japanese-held Sumatra for over 3 years in WWII.

Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music by Don Campbell. 

A Label-Free Approach 2nd edition by Alice M. Hammel & Ryan M. Hourigan.

 Practical books by Alice Hammel and Ryan Hourigan that offer teaching strategies and inspirational experiences and ideas.

This award winning film,based on the novel Una Vida by Nicolas Bazan, is lyrically interwoven with the music of New Orleans.

A Symphony of the Human Spirit.  Award-winning documentary of a Paraguayan village built on a landfill, and the man who built instruments from the garbage and began The Recycled Orchestra.

The American Boy choir made a trip to Terezin Concentration Camp to learn about a work they perform using texts from the children in the camp. 20 years later they return and are reunited with the survivors they met earlier.