In Thursday’s (8/2) Express-Times (Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania), Kelly Huth writes, “For about 50 deaf and hearing-impaired students, a week of music education awaits at Camp Here Everyone Really is One. Camp HERO is a weeklong summer experience at Bloomsburg University that began July 29 and runs through Friday. The program, called ‘Bringing Music to our Souls’ and piloted by Allentown Symphony’s education initiative El Sistema Lehigh Valley, teaches students to use interpretive dance, melody bell choir and a variety of percussion instruments to make their own music. The program is a Camp HERO pilot, and among the first of its kind in the United States, says Steven Liu, program director for El Sistema Lehigh Valley, of the Allentown Symphony Hall Association. … El Sistema Lehigh Valley is an educational outreach program of the Allentown Symphony Association, bringing string instrument instruction to disadvantaged children in the Lehigh Valley. ‘Most music people would not think of engaging deaf and hearing-impaired children in a music camp, but they can feel vibration and experience music in other ways, so they can absolutely experience it,’ Liu says. World-renowned percussionist Marcus Santos is joining the camp to work with children during camp week, hosted by Bloomsburg University.”
Posted August 2, 2012
