Reference & Special Interest

When Gabriel is located years after a traumatic brain injury, a music therapist unlocks the key to his memory with music  Based on a true story.

Thanks to mobile recording technology, musicians from around the globe unite in exciting collaborations.

Witness the story-telling power of music in award-winnng films without dialogue.

Meet the inhabitants of the nursing home for retired opera singers founded by Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. Insightful, humorous, life-affirming.

A homeless, ex-Julliard musician battles mental illness through the power of music and friendship. 

When the time came for revolt to gain independence from the weight of the Iron Curtain, song became the Estonians' vehicle for free speech, uniting them in a soaring and daring anthem of independence. Inspiring, gripping, and true.

A stirring, live gospel performance by 60 exuberant children that benefited childhoood victims of AIDS in Africa.

Extended version of Christopher Nupen's award winning documentary about freedom, survival and the extraordinary place of music in the Nazi concentration camps. 

An uplifting hit cheered by audiences everywhere starring Richard Dreyfuss as a composer and High School teacher.

There's music in the wind and sky. Can you hear it? And there's hope. Can you feel it? The boy called August Rush can. In this musical odyssey he also discovers the musical talent hidden within himself. 

The unconventional approach of a downtrodden musician in a repressive boy's school upsets everyone. Superb vocal performances in a heartwarming story.

Follow autistic children & their families as they prepare and put on a musical.

Two transformative programs in public schools bring underprivileged children/youth together through dance.

Boston Youth Symphony players are taken completely out of their comfort zones.

ALICE'S PIANO: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer by Melissa Mueller and Reinhardt Piechocki.

An award-winning documentary on the power of music to change us and sustain us at all stages of life. Interviews with Bobby McFerrin, Oliver Sacks and others prominent in the music fields.

Strengthening Our Minds Across a Lifetime. This 2-part PBS program--The Art of Connection and Creativity--reveals the vital role the arts play from our earliest to our final years of life.

by Barry Green.  Energize music making with a myriad of suggestions to create joy and excitement in performance. 

The true story of pianist Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor by Caroline Stoessinger, with a Foreword by Vaclav Havel.