Reference, Special Needs

by Alice M. Hammel and Ryan M. Hourigan. Structuring class experiences and creating effective team-teaching strategies.

Soundtrack from Paradise Road movie using the music written down by the WWII POW women interned in Sumatra.

by Helen Colijn.  Music overcame despair for the women imprisoned on Japanese-held Sumatra for over 3 years in WWII.

Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music by Don Campbell. 

A Label-Free Approach 2nd edition by Alice M. Hammel & Ryan M. Hourigan.

 Practical books by Alice Hammel and Ryan Hourigan that offer teaching strategies and inspirational experiences and ideas.

This award winning film,based on the novel Una Vida by Nicolas Bazan, is lyrically interwoven with the music of New Orleans.

Ruby helps kids explore ways to identify, express, and move through their feelings.

A Symphony of the Human Spirit.  Award-winning documentary of a Paraguayan village built on a landfill, and the man who built instruments from the garbage and began The Recycled Orchestra.

The American Boy choir made a trip to Terezin Concentration Camp to learn about a work they perform using texts from the children in the camp. 20 years later they return and are reunited with the survivors they met earlier.

 A homeless musician adopts a flock of wild parrots in the hills of San Francisco. This true story about love, nature, and nurture will touch your heart, and surprise you at the end.

When renowned dancer Pierre Dulaine (Antonio Banderas) takes a teaching job in a NYC public school, he is ridiculed by the street-wise students. He begins to meld their hip-hop moves with his ballroom style and, over time, becomes their mentor. 

Set in medieval cloisters in mystic German landscapes, this passionate bio-drama features the12th-century Benedictine nun who was a composer and mystic.

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.