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This has aired locally on WOUB as part of a series "This Time Around: Reinventing Community"
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This has aired locally on WOUB as part of a series "This Time Around: Reinventing Community"
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Review of The Power of SongA moving portrait of a group of developmentally disabled adults writing poetry, that is then set to music and sung by professional musicians. The project helps to fund the program and is very successful. The sounds range from snippets of the poetry writing workshops, interviews with writers, performers, and the music itself. THe piece helps make the point of seeing these people as adults, as perceptive, intelligent, feeling people like us. It is quite elegant and very effective. If public radio is here to keep us learning, to help us understand what is unfamiliar to us, and to enrich our lives, then this piece fits swimmingly. |
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Host Intro: Often developmentally disabled adults are on the sidelines of community. But in Athens Ohio, a new CD of songs written by the developmentally disabled puts them in the spotlight.
Host ending: You can listen to songs from the CD at www.passionworks.org
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Review of The Power of Song
This feature starts out with a scene from the Athens public library where a group of college students are helping disabled adults write poetry. Someone had the idea to set some of the poetry to music. 12 Athens have jumped on the project and produced a CD with some really nice sounds. There were a lot of scenes and some great music mixes in this feature. I especially liked the interview with one poet Serena and the musician who set her poem to music. The musician comments that Serena feels deeply and thinks about the same things that a 30-year-old musician does. This was a very nice piece—I only wish I would have heard more from the disabled adult poets. Check it out this is a well done feature.