In order to make our Music Around the World experiences even bigger and better this year, I wanted to find a way to provide my students with an opportunity to go out into the community and share their songs with our friends in our neighborhood. I also wanted to provide them with the opportunity to hear some of my very talented orchestra friends play their songs for them. So with the love and support of our orchestra director, Mark Hill, we created this program entitled, "Shine Your Light, Share Your Song." During this very special evening of music, my students opened the show with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and closed our show with "Shine On", our theme song for our Find Your Light service project. Between these two pieces some of my dearest friends took a moment and shared their songs with my students. My students also shared our Find Your Light service project with the audience and provided them with the opportunity to purchase "Cookies for Quarters", after the show. Here is what I hoped our audience was able to take away with them that night:
Music is magical. It can move you to fight for something that you believe in, dissolve you into tears, and send you soaring over the rainbow. It is a universal language that we all share. In a world that often feels so divided it is the one great connector that reminds us that on the inside we are all the same. Each one of us has been blessed with a very special gift...a light inside us that has been lit to shine in our world and make our world just a little bit brighter...a song to share so that others might have hope for tomorrow. On this night we celebrated the power of music and this amazing gift that we have been blessed with. These are our songs...may you feel light shinning through them as well.
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