Focused Listening and Life Skills

Using contemporary chamber music composed by Katrina Wreede, Director of Composing Together, the concert explores the powerful influences of music on emotions and the human spirit, identifying some of the simple choices composers make to achieve dramatic emotional effects, then collaborating with the audience to create a new composition. With Jan Elise Sells, the musicians and audience will consider how to develop more focused listening, learning breathing and entrainment skills to seek a deeper appreciation and understanding of musical creativity and personal response, followed by a group discussion about the place of music in healing troubled youth and society in general.