Older adults making joyful noise

New Horizons International Music Association is partnering with the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance at the Roeland Park Community Center to introduce or re-introduce adults over 50 to instrumental music. UMKC music education majors provide instruction while gaining teaching and directing experience before their student teaching assignments. Phil Edelman is a doctoral candidate who leads the Roeland Park band.

“We are far more education-focused than your typical community band,” Edelman said. “Our goal is not just entertainment, but to learn and to improve.”

In a special to The Kansas City Star, Diana Lambdin Meyer writes about the program and others that encourage what many in the Kansas City area have come to know later in life: that music and performance saturates the human spirit in a manner that few other experiences do, elevating the quality of life for those who absorb it to an altitude that simply cannot be appreciated by those who have not experienced its power. Read more…


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