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How The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation Has Been Quietly Helping Schools By Donating Musical Instruments

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Thanks to the non-profit, more than two million students have seen improvements to their school's music programs
Crystal A. Frost
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Mar 20, 2020 - 2:57 pm

Nearly a quarter of a century in the making, the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation (MHOF) has become much more than founding member and film composer Michael Kamen ever imagined. Since 1996 when the non-profit organization began, upwards of 30,000 instruments have been donated to schools and more than two million students have been impacted by improvements to their music programs. What began as a simple, heartfelt effort to bring high-quality musical instruments into underfunded K-12 music programs has developed into a large-scale effort to improve music and arts programs all around the country. 

Michael Kamen, who earned four GRAMMY Awards from nine nominations during his career, named his foundation after the award-winning 1995 family movie Mr. Holland’s Opus, which he scored. The film tells the true story of an American composer-turned-teacher named Glenn Holland, who spent 30 years improving the lives of his high school students through robust music education, despite the constant struggle against budget cuts. Kamen, whose score for Mr. Holland’s Opus earned him the GRAMMY for Best Instrumental Arrangement that year, was so inspired by the story that he decided to start a foundation based on the same core values.

“Music’s role in a child’s education is key in engaging them, sparking their creativity and unique voice and improving their overall enjoyment and success in school. A vibrant, music-rich curriculum makes an immense difference in their lives.”  - mhopus.org 

Each year, MHOF receives hundreds of applications and must choose between 70 and 100 schools to award instruments. “Part of my job is to make sure we do not overextend or overcommit,” Scott Holtzman, Chairman of the Board of Directors explains, in an interview with the Recording Academy. “The core mission of MHOF is to bring instruments to schools that can’t afford them, but it hasn’t always been easy.” Coming out of their best year to date, Holtzman still looks back on the more difficult years as a learning experience. “The biggest challenge for any foundation is getting people to open their pocketbooks,” he explains. “People tend to look at music and music activities as not one of the highest-profile concerns in a world where we have such political turmoil and wars going on.”

Despite his busy career as Executive VP of Music Business Affairs at Walt Disney Studios, Holtzman has been with MHOF for 17 years because to him, music is a critical part of education. “It’s not just about learning music, but about the skills, you learn from learning music.” And according to the National Association for Music Education, Holtzman is right. Studies show that learning music builds curiosity and imagination while simultaneously teaching discipline, pattern recognition, coordination, and an array of other skills. 

 “It’s not just about learning music, but about the skills you learn from learning music.” -Scott Holtzman, Chairman of MHOF Board

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MHOF President Felice Mancini, daughter of philanthropist Ginny Mancini and renowned film composer Henry Mancini, finds that working at the foundation is a very personal experience for her as well. “I grew up with music all around me,” she shares. “My parents gave me that sense of social responsibility as well. They were very, very philanthropic.” Several years ago, Mancini inherited her father’s flutes and began learning how to play them. “I did it as sort of an homage to him,” she explains, having only studied piano and voice in the past. In the end, the experience gave Mancini a new appreciation for the work she does. “Learning a new instrument is not easy, and you have to be very motivated and dedicated to keep it up.” The experience serves as evidence that when a child is drawn to music, it is so crucial they have instrument access. “It is so important that you give them the best instruments you can so that they can learn correctly instead of getting defeated and quitting.”

Since its founding, the non-profit has seen donors with remarkable stories pass their instruments on to students, one of which was even turned into a documentary. A few years back, a radio station in New York (WQXR)  partnered with MHOF to do an instrument drive. Scattered around the city were drop sites where people could come to donate their retired musical instruments. Upon arrival, donors were asked to share the stories behind them. One donor was 91-year-old Holocaust survivor, Joseph Feingold, who came from his home in the Bronx to donate his violin.

 "After he got out [of the camps], he bought this instrument on the black market in order to heal from his experiences," Mancini recalls. The instrument was donated to a 12-year-old girl named Brianna in a school in the Bronx. "A [documentary filmmaker] who worked at the Daily Show with Jon Stewart at the time heard the story on the radio and pursued it." Joe’s Violin, as it was called, earned an Academy Award nomination for best documentary short that year, and the story itself earned the hearts of many. 

Sharing Knowledge Through Data

The momentum with which MHOF’s new Music Education District Support Services (MEDSS®) program has taken off is one of the MHOF team’s largest sources of excitement. The program began as a way to share the knowledge and data the foundation has acquired over the years regarding the strengths and weaknesses in low-income school districts.

“We found that people are just so hungry for this information,” Mancini explains. “If they know what other districts are doing and what their challenges are, it makes them feel more proactive.”

Within a few short years, the program developed into much more than just data sharing. MEDSS partners with school districts in need and assesses their music programs from a functional standpoint with the end goal of enhancing and sustaining their music education. “We like to give them the information they need, assess what their challenges are and help them. In the end, the leverage point is that we will give instruments to these schools,” Mancini added.

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MEDSS also works hard to carefully incorporate local organizations into the improvements. “We like to bring in other organizations from their community that will plug right into the findings,” Mancini shares. Schools in need have a tendency to say yes to anyone offering services for free which is often at the expense of sustainability, but MHOF is determined to avoid this. “We want to help this become a community effort, but in a smart, strategic way.”

Perhaps one of the most unique things about MHOF though is their “no-frills” attitude when it comes to fundraising. “We just do what we do with our heads down and try to make an impact in as many low-income schools and districts as we can. People notice and support that,” Mancini says. She goes on to explain that the organization is not celebrity-driven and has no celebrity spokesperson or fundraising gala. “We just try to be the organization that makes things happen for the people who want it to happen.” It is clear that her desire is for the donors to be seen as the real heroes. “We are just the middleman; the conduit.” Of course, there are exceptions to every rule. “We do, at some point, want to put on an event to honor Michael Kamen and raise money for the foundation,” Holtzman shares. Perhaps this is something we can all look forward to in their 25th year.

When asked about the organization’s roadmap for 2020 and beyond, Holtzman and Mancini both reply with a clear sense of optimism. “This is going to be a year for our growth, both with fundraising and with staff,” Mancini reveals. Driven by the success of MEDSS, MHOF will continue to help as many districts as they can in order to make children’s musical dreams a reality. Of course, the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation would not be approaching its 25th Anniversary with the same momentum and success if not for the generosity of all those who believed in the organization and contributed along the way. Regular donors to Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation include several GRAMMY award-winners, including film composer Alan Silvestri, songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, rock artist Eddie van Halen, and country singer Chris Stapleton. A full list of donors can be found on mhopus.org where the sub-header affectionately reads, "These are the people who make it all possible."

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The Venezuela native talks to GRAMMY.com about her enchanting debut single "TÉ," what being part of Steve Aoki's label means to her and what she wants to accomplish through music
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Oct 8, 2020 - 10:18 am

There's a lot in a first impression. Press play on Andrekza's first-ever single "TÉ," and you'll understand why Dim Mak En Fuego, Steve Aoki's newly launched Latin music label, has enlisted her as their first female artist. 

The song's intriguing beat will grab your curiosity first, but it's really just the beginning. The track, a song about letting walls down with a romantic interest over tea, is your introduction to Adrekza's magic. A thoughtful songwriter, she captures the beauty of a moment that could easily be nerve-wracking so invitingly; poetic verses disarm you and invite you in warmly. "Vamos a tomar una tazita de te/ Maybe con el azucar se va la timidez," she sings. "Let's go out for a cup of tea/ Maybe the sugar will drive our shyness away."  

Adrekza's gift for writing is a result of having to cope with bullying when she was younger. "When I began writing poetry as a child, that feeling that I expressed on paper, was mine only and it was like that friend who when something happened to me [I confided in]," she told GRAMMY.com recently via Zoom. "It was just that notebook and me because nobody else knew about my lyrics, about my things."

The Venezuela native, a huge art lover who loves expressing herself through fashion and runs her own content creative house LOTUS VISUAL ARTS, signed with Warner Chappell and now has joined forces with Dim Mak En Fuego to launch her career as an artist. 

She spoke to GRAMMY.com about her influences, what inspired writing a song about tea, working with Cassius Corrigan on the Get Out-inspired music video, what being a part of Steve Aoki's label means to her and what she wants to accomplish through music.

Before singing you were a songwriter. Did you like to write for other people?

Yes, I have always liked it but I haven’t had the opportunity to write for other artists, I’ve only written for myself and I really like writing poetry.

When you started with Warner, you didn’t write for other artists?

No. I started with Warner as a composer, for my project. And I am writing for other artists, but mainly I am an artist and creative director.

What do you like about writing for other artists? How do you know when a song is for you and when a song is for another artist? 

I think you feel that. When you are making a song and it vibrates with you, you connect with that feeling that is suddenly so unique and so personal. Sometimes the songs just talk to you and I think that the moment you make songs for other artists, it's the same when you kind of enter the world of that artist and write especially for that person. You feel like that person and you try to express all that feeling in the way that you think that person can. I think that's a super cool power like interpreting the feelings of other artists and other people. That's what I like the most about writing and being able to collaborate with other artists as well.

I read that you write to an imaginary friend, an alter ego. Tell me more about that.

When I started writing and making music, at some point I suffered from bullying. I was bullied by people about making music or for personal reasons that were happening at school and things like that. I suppressed my writing and didn’t share it. I wrote only for myself. When I began writing poetry as a child, that feeling that I expressed on paper, was mine only and it was like that friend who when something happened to me [I confided in]—I opened the notebook and wrote absolutely everything I felt and everything that happened to me. It was just that notebook and me because nobody else knew about my lyrics, about my things. Until I had the opportunity to do a recital in Venezuela and win an award. There it all started with writing and all that.

When you started, you didn't necessarily start wanting to be an artist, you did many other things. What called you to want to be an artist, write your songs and also perform them in front of the world?

Since I can remember, I said that I was going to dedicate my life to art, I come from an artist mother. I think that art has always kind of been inside me. The theme of music at the moment is simply the way I am expressing myself, I have expressed myself in many other ways. I have expressed myself through art, painting, photography, I made a film last year as a cinematographer. I think it's a journey that I'm [spending through music] at the moment, but I think that art is [something you go for]100%. I believe that it is simply a method of expression and I am expressing it that way at the moment. I obviously want to bring this feeling to people who connect with me, who vibrate and feel the same way as me. I can give you this energy that I want to give you and that I know is going to be incredible when I can perform my album in front of people.

How would you describe your energy?

I believe my energy is always positive. I think I always try to find a solution. I think that beyond engulfing ourselves in our problems —I think if we focus or spend a lot of time thinking about the problem or how to solve it, we would look for a solution, I think everything would be much easier. Since I was little my mother has told me that life is imaginary and I think that this way I have spent my energy, I feel that things are magical and that if you dream it and work it, you can achieve it. I think that is the energy, love and that center that you can have within yourself.

What music has influenced your sound?

I like a lot of genres, but I identify [with] a lot. I really like artists like Julieta Venegas, Natalia Lafourcade, I really like those rhythms. But obviously I also really like Latin rhythms and everything happening at the moment, urban and everything. I also identify a lot with that and I like it. Then there are [artists] like Frank Sinatra, I really like Michael Jackson, Reik. Those are some of the artists that I constantly dance to. [Laughs.]

Your single, "TÉ," is now available. It's your first single ever. How do you feel now that it’s out for the whole world to hear?

I feel very happy, very fortunate to be on this journey with Dim Mak En Fuego by Steve Aoki. It has been a blessing to be able to release “Té” with them. The video is already on YouTube, the song is on all digital platforms … and the support I have had has been incredible, I am very grateful to all the people, also to my team who has been working very hard with me and I think it is a team effort that has been very sweet. The song is cool and they have to go listen.

I want to talk to you a little bit about the lyrics because I feel like there is something very calming about meeting someone you’re romantically interested over tea. Usually, people say, "Let's grab coffee, let's get to know each other." Tell me, what inspired the song?

I don't drink coffee, I drink tea and all my life I've had tea and I think that—I believe in energy a lot and I meditate a lot, and tea helps me a lot in many ways. When I discovered that tea had a connection with me beyond—why do I say beyond? Because I feel that the moment you drink tea or the moment you have coffee, so to say if you’re a coffee drinker, you are connecting that energy in that moment just by being present at tea time, and it doesn't matter what you're thinking, but that you’re focusing that energy on that. If you are with a person and you invite him to have tea, it is to know each other intimately because no one else will be there but you and that person looking at each other, basically, drinking tea because that’s how you drink tea. It connects you like that and calms you that way.

Tea, depending on what type of tea you drink or how the tea is prepared, tea has incredible things that help your body a lot and your energy. And sometimes even in the way you carry your day or your life. That’s what tea has meant to me. I think I have such a great connection with that moment and with that feeling and with the ritual, so to speak, of having tea. In the morning I get up, make tea, drink tea, start my day, think, meditate on what I'm going to do and everything starts there. I find it very interesting, being able to invite someone to have tea and invite this person, lovingly, to meet you because I think that at this moment with everything that is happening in the world and how we have developed, how this new generation has grown and formed, I feel that women are sometimes afraid to say what we feel. Sometimes we wait for the other to express a feeling first. I think with this song I was able to express everything I felt. I think that's super cool when you can simply take what you have out of yourself and invite a person to have tea or tell a person that you like each other and that you want to share things with them, you want to see them and you want to get to know them. I think that is super valuable too. There is a feminist theme and many other things that I wanted to touch on in the song.

With everything going on now, how are you taking care of your mental health?

I think the connection with yourself is very important. We were just talking about tea—tea is a moment in which you connect with yourself. It is the connection with yourself, it is not losing focus, it is working for your dream and moving forward, to understand everything that is happening and to be supportive and how from within you can make an improvement for humanity and for society. I also believe that it is super important for mental health and when we know ourselves and when we are also aware that we are not alone in the world and that it is as important to take care of ourselves as it is to take care of the world, other people, the planet.

You are Dim Mak En Fuego’s first female artist on which is super big. Congratulations.

Thank you very much.

Are you going to use this as fuel to help you succeed?

I believe that this is a great blessing that came into my life and it is a great support that I have. Steve is a very important person in my career, who I met a few months ago. I connected a lot with his art, I connected a lot with his way of understanding creativity. He is a man that I admire very much for all his developments, in the business world as well. With Dim Mak En Fuego it was an opportunity to release my album Cassette, which is not done yet. This is the first chapter, "TÉ", but it is a part of an album called Cassette, which has two sides, side A of the cassette, side B of the cassette. It will come with a visual component that is its own world, it is a complete world that intertwines one video with another. We are going to release 12 songs throughout all these months that are left in the year and will go into next year. Without a doubt, I think that this will be a very big boost for me because it is a beautiful opportunity that came to my life and I hope I can take advantage of it and be able to be at the level of commitment that it is.

I also wanted to ask you about the concept of the "TÉ" video that is inspired by Get Out, how did that come about?

It is very interesting. The video in my project, visually, I am co-directing with this incredible director named Cassius Corrigan. He directed, acted and wrote his movie Hurricane, which is currently on HBO. When I teamed up with Cassius, I had all these creative and visual ideas, "Look, I want these colors, I have this idea," he comes up and says, "What if we left him in shock of everything that he is living and experiencing with you, you’re giving him this tea, that he knows tastes different and he is suddenly hypnotized by you. We begin to see him hypnotized. Then he is engulfed in this world and does practically everything you want.” So we developed the idea from there. Get Out is a movie that I love so much. We connected with that and we said, "Okay let's give it a different narrative," and that's what we tried to do, like showing my personality, my colors, but always giving it a narrative there.

Right now, there are many eyes and ears on Latin music. What are your goals? Would you be happy dominating music in Latin America, or do you want to also be massively heard in the United States, and not just by Latinos?

I want anyone to listen to me. I want the person who connects with me through my music or through my art to be feel bordeless, without limits, without barriers. I believe that we are all the same. I believe that there is no difference between Americans and Latinos. I believe that if we connect with love, and music is love, I believe that that is worth everything. Connecting is the most important thing to me and obviously I want to connect with as many people as possible, but for me the most important thing is that I can get there and really connect. Not only can I come in and say, "I dominated this market and I'm here dominating. Cool, I'm being played. People listen to me because I'm getting plays," but I would really like people to connect and say, "Okay. I connect with this, I Like this". Not all of my songs on the album are going to be liked by everyone immediately, that's why we call it a mixtape, because it's kind of super varied. That is the idea, that I can connect with people who have different thoughts, who have different ideals, who like different music. I believe that this crossover is going to be achieved with the energy and with this essence that we have been talking about, which is beyond a music or a song, but a feeling I think.

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GRAMMY Museum Experience Prudential Center To Launch Fall Music Industry Program

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Sep 18, 2020 - 12:49 pm

The GRAMMY Museum Experience Prudential Center in New Jersey is launching a fall session music industry program for students 13–18 years old. From Oct.10–Nov. 21, students can enroll for Contemporary Songwriting 101, Contemporary Songwriting 201, Audio Mixing 101 and Intro to Careers in Music Business. Leading the courses, Mark Conklin, Director of Artist Relations and Programming and other guest professionals in the industry will share their knowledge via Zoom. 

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The classes aim to continue empowering students around the N.J. area and "develop the next generation of GRAMMY Award winners," Conklin said in a statement.

He continued: “Building upon our extremely successful Summer Session program we’ve designed new offerings to provide high school students the building blocks for what it takes to succeed in the music business, both on and off the stage.”

The Contemporary Songwriting 101 and Contemporary Songwriting 201 classes will run for seven weeks every Saturday  starting on Oct. 10 from 9:30 a.m. EST until 12:30 p.m. EST. Tuition is $100 for each class.

Audio Mixing 101 will run for six weeks on Tuesdays, Oct. 13– Nov. 17, from 7 p.m. EST to 8:30 p.m. EST. Tuition is set at $75.

Intro to Careers in Music Business, for 11th and 12th grade students only, will run for four weeks Oct. 19– Nov. 9 on Mondays from 3:30 p.m. EST to 5 p.m. EST. Tuition is set at $50. 

A limited number of free scholarships are available for Newark residents for all classes. For more info on each class, their requirements and other aspects of the program, visit the museum website.

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Summer Session will offer youth ages 13 to 18 an opportunity to gain tools needed to embark on a career in the music industry
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Jul 29, 2020 - 5:25 pm

GRAMMY Museum Experience Prudential Center is giving youth in New Jersey and New York something to look forward to this summer.

The museum in Newark, N.J. has announced its Summer Session camp will return to offer youth ages 13 to 18 an opportunity to gain tools needed to embark on a career in the music industry. The five-day camp running Aug. 17–21 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. EST every day will happen virtually through Zoom. It will focus on three tracks youth can explore: songwriting, hip-hop hitmaking and vocal performance. During the camp, music faculty and guest industry professionals will share insight.

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Interested in exploring a career in music?

Register today for the #GRAMMYMuseumExp 2020 Summer Session!

5-day virtual summer music industry program for students age 13 – 18, running from August 17-21.

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Summer Session first launched in 2019 and featured GRAMMY-nominated singer/producer Mario Winans and renowned music director Alonzo Harris. Mark Conklin, Director of Artist Relations & Programming at the GRAMMY Museum Experience Prudential Center, said the museum was thrilled to once again be able to empower youth interested in music. 

"Summer Session provides an unparalleled opportunity for students who want an inside look at the art, craft and business of music," he said in a statement. "If a student is seriously considering pursuing a career in music, or even curious about one, this program will give them the tools they need for a serious jump start."

The cost to attend will be $100. Tuition will be free for Newark students and some scholarships will be available for students outside of Newark.

For more information on the camp and how to apply, visit the museum's website.

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Renée Fleming Webinar Series To Explore Impact Of Music And Arts On Human Health And The Brain

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Music and Mind Live with Renée Fleming will feature scientists and practitioners in the "intersection music, neuroscience, and healthcare"
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May 19, 2020 - 2:12 pm

GRAMMY-winning soprano Renée Fleming will launch a webinar series exploring the impact of music and arts on human health and the brain.

Music and Mind Live with Renée Fleming will feature scientists and practitioners in the "intersection music, neuroscience, and healthcare" including child development, pain and anxiety and management in conversation with the singer, according to a statement. The first webinar will happen Tuesday, May 19 at 5 p.m. EST/ 2 p.m. PST with Dr. Vivek Murthy. 

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Murthy will discuss music, loneliness and isolation as well as his book, Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World. The series will also include a Q&A portion.

Fleming, an arts and health advocate, said now is the time to talk about how art impacts health. 

"Research is revealing amazing things about the way arts influence human health and the brain,” Fleming said in a statement. “With our working lives halted, the covid-19 pandemic has also fostered an explosion of creativity and good will. What better time to examine our need as human beings to create and experience the arts, and the basis of this in science?"

Fleming's role as the Artistic Advisor to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in partnership with the National Institutes of Health and the National Endowment for the Arts inspired her to create the series..

The webinars can be watched live on Facebook. Those who cannot tune into the livestream can catch a replay on the Kennedy Center's website. The live episodes can also be watched on the Kennedy Center's Facebook and YouTube. 

See the full schedule of the series below:

May 19 – “Music, Loneliness, and Isolation”
Vivek H. Murthy, MD (former US Surgeon General, author)
 
May 26 – "Community of Voices, Sound and Music Perception, and a Resource for the Future"- 
Julene Johnson, PhD and Charles Limb, MD (University of California San Francisco); Sunil Iyengar (National Endowment for the Arts)
 
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June 16 – "Using Music for Health and Wellbeing during COVID-19"
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