Student Showcase

Artwork by Brittany Merritt

Last month I presented the “Fractured Kaleidoscope” project to students in my Therapeutic Arts Program at the Blue Ridge Music Therapy Center.  Using crayon and watercolor on watercolor paper, students created a beautiful and colorful image by following this series of basic steps.

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Mundana Music Therapy and Time for Music is collaborating to create a series of music therapy song books featuring original music by different music therapists and music therapy students.  The first book in the series will be called “Greetings and Goodbyes”.  Josh Hauck, one of my students, created several songs to be featured in the book, including “Are You Ready For the Weekend?”.  Josh composed this song independently and it will be included in the book along with the sheet music.  Josh is also working on launching his own website of music services called “Note for Note”.  It will feature Josh’s other social songs, compositions, and arrangements.  More updates to come on the book and Josh’s website!  Josh is the featured soloist on this recording.

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“My Superman to Be” by K. Hansen & W. Richards featuring the Blue Ridge Music Therapists

February 22, 2012

This song was created by K. Hansen using a songwriting technique called “lyrical paraphrasing”.  To learn more about this topic, check out the Composer’s Compass. Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend

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“A Winter of Love” by Shannon Enloe and Wade Richards

December 19, 2011

As part of our project at Blue Ridge to write and record new Christmas music, student Shannon Enloe composed the lyrics for “A Winter of Love”.  I enjoyed trying some new chord progressions.  I am hoping that the sheet music will soon be available! Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to [...]

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All Around the World by K. Hanson

December 10, 2011

Here is a new Christmas song for the holidays!  I think the ukulele is the best instrument to accompany this song! Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend

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“My Life” by Kayla

November 27, 2011

Songwriting is a powerful tool to discover what words and music flow inside you. Kayla came into her music session and starting writing on the spot “My Life”. the words and song just came out effortlessly, and it was hard to write it all down fast enough! Kayla was later given the opportunity to perform [...]

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