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- Bill Palladino
- Username: LostCity
- Location: Traverse City, Michigan
- Joined PRX: Nov 22, 2004
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- "The Power of Song"
- Summary: In Athens, Ohio the ATCO Sheltered Workshop for developmentally disabled adults is making money - and art! Their 'outsider art' made $100,000 last year. This year, with a new project, their art is filling our ears as well as our eyes. Their new CD features songs written by disabled artists and set to music
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Review of The Power of Song
Bill Palladino
Posted on December 15, 2004 at 05:31 PM
A 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.