Podcasts about kidznotes

On today's episode I had Katie Wyatt, Executive Director and founder of a very successful program called Kidznotes, a youth orchestra program based on the famous El Sistema program of Venezuela. On the chat I got to hear all about her career path and how she ended up going from the audition path to running her own nonprofit. Some things we talked about on the show: - How Katie’s path toward an orchestra job shifted and she found herself on a totally different kind of career path   - How organizing events around world events that had an impact on her and planted a seed on what is possible for her career   - How a trip to Venezuela for a youth orchestra trip created the foundation for a different kind of priority for her career   - How she started a very successful El Sistema program locally in North Carolina called Kidznotes (yes, the same El Sistema program that LA Phil conductor Gustavo Dudamel has made famous!)    - Her experience with making that career goal change from orchestra audition focused to starting and growing a nonprofit organization   - She gives Information and advice about starting an El Sistema program in your area if this sounds like something you’d want to do!   - How her teacher reacted to her leaving the orchestra audition path- it was definitely a surprising AND INSPIRING answer.   Thank you to Ficks Music for providing the hosting for the show! https://www.ficksmusic.com/   Kidznotes: http://www.kidznotes.org/  

This talk will be a retrospective look at these works and the way they furthered diversity in American opera and musical theatre. Diversity is used more often today than ever before, thanks to musicals like HAMILTON and the controversial OTELLO which made the authenticity of theatrical storytelling a hot topic. This talk will be led by William Henry Curry, Music Director of the Durham Symphony, who has conducted the Grammy-nominated recording of opera X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X, has reached thousands of diverse audience members with the DSO’s “All that Jazz” program and work with kidzNotes. Curry wrote “Eulogy for a Dream,” based on Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech which has been narrated by the late William Warfield of PORGY AND BESS fame. Jackson Cooper is a Theatre and Classical Music Critic for Classical Voice of North Carolina and a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and Music Critics Association of North America.

From the historic grandeur of the Biltmore Estate & its similarities to Downton Abbey, to the traditional craftmanship of Dr. Grabow Pipes, to a legendary musician sharing his talent with children, & the adorability of baby lion cubs at the NC Zoo, Heather Burgiss shares some of her favorite stories from 2014.

Branford Marsalis participates in the KidzNotes program. "Cotton" Ketchie creates art each & every day. Master weaver Susan Leveille is an NC Heritage Award recipient. And The Butterfly Project uses art to teach children about a difficult period in history.