PROFESSOR FELIPE HALL " Pianist Composer Musicologist ^ 548 West 162™nd Street/New York 10032 Telephone 212 795-1301/VM 212 795-0836 [email protected] May 28th 2003 Attention: Hon Secretary General UNITED NATIONS MR. KOFI ANNAN Hon Secretary General: I send the appended information with materials concerning cultural events that highlight the formation of the Integrated Symphony World Orchestra to attain your endorsement to bring forth throughout the world this intent. I also send copies of information concerning Therapeutic Music Workshops for the Children and Youth in the USA and other countries. The project focuses on the HIV/AIDS with children and youth. Our intent is to create sources and venues to support and help the nation in our dilemma to stand strongly in this time of crisis. Africa, and under developed poor countries are needlessly suffering. Hence the idea of forming cultural entities to enhance and to unite is relevant. I am also discussing with the United Nations School to implement my project on Therapeutic Music Workshop and to form the Integrated Youth World Orchestra and Chamber group to support this cause for children and youth to contribute in education and artistically among each other. for your support and for an appointment concerning thisjprojgct rofessor Felipe Hall D E e 1 1 ¥ ^ R MAY -6 2004 i EOSG/ CENTRAL Professor Felipe Hall Pianist Musicologist 548*West 162nd Street N.Y. 10032/Tel. 212795-1301 E-mail - DESCRIPTION Therapeutic Music Workshop/Foundation is a Not For Profit Community and Parks based organization. Its purpose will service the entire Upper Harlem, Washington Heights, Inwood Communities, and will offer its services in the City <s New York and worldwide. The staff members are community organization directors, parents, and local community board member. It will host national and international guests in education, therapist, music, art, dance, theatre, medical neurologist, sports and performing artists. Therapeutic Music Workshop/Foundation's mission will establish a base to nurture the inner persona/to encourage creative ability/to deal with inner coaflicts constructively that is active ability/to deal with inner conflicts constructively that is active within the persona. It will foster a series of music therapy workshops for children, youth, parents, and elderly. The workshop will interact with individuals using music and its fundamental .elements for stimuli. It will make the individual assertive to nature law, music and other art culture. It is define as a form of music related to re-education (psychotherapy with mythodrama). The technique used will employ sound: Music, forms, and expression to communicate and to structure relationship offered in the group. The specific elements and tools will make usage of electronic keyboard instruments connected to the computer, which will record all types of sounds, pulsation, and self created sound. Other tools consist of sound produced with woodwinds, strings, and percussive instruments. They will be used as stimuli to enhance the physio/vibral percussive activators. The human body consists of properties that aet and react to forces it encounters. Sound, pulse, visualization, muscular tissues, and other neurological properties, the principal factors to act and react to matter. To achieve therapeutic goal requires interacting with "properties" to direct them to its original motions. SCHEDULE AND TIME FRAME f A) Concise and structures schedule is required for these programs. Children are required to attend early morning session from 10:00 am to 10:45 (circa 1 hour). The youth session will commence at 11:30 am to 12:30 am. Children session consist of basic and fundamental elemental procedures. The youth program will use "Mythodrama" techniques supervised by Dr. Allan Guggenbuehl Psychologist, Therapist founder/director of the Institute for Konfikt und Management in Bern, Zurich, California and Sweden; Assistant Dr. Suzan Still, Director of the IKM-USA, Psychologist, Therapist Special presentation with Dr. Arnold Langberg, Emeritus Professor at University off Colorado in Denver, and Director Administrator of Alternative Education for Denver Schools. Special consultant Mr. Douglas Miranda, specialist in theatre activities, HIV/AIDS awareness, and Outreach project consultant for Drug Education, New York and Boston. B) The sessions will be offered during week and on Saturday for 12 weeks (circa 3 months) at the Heights Center for Immigrants and Advocacy at C.E.R.C PS 173,306 Washington Heights Avenue, New York. C) See Curriculum appended. OBJECTIVE The objective of this project will develop ability to understand the persona and focus on the individual self-potentials towards changes. It will enhance independence, freedom to change, and to balance integration. It will also expose child and youth to his own inner self-ability to create and apply himself in all areas,. TARGET AUDIENCE DESCRIPTION The target are this program will cover is Upper Harlem, Washington Heights, amd Inwood areas. The population consists of Dominicans, Latin Americans, African, African-Americans, Arabs, Indians, Chinese, Jews, and other ethnicity. PROJECT STAFF7ITME LINE FOR PROJECT COMPLETION Project Staff Includes: Ms. Lupe Rodriquez, Founder and President of HCIA, Inc. Ms. Calinda Lewis, Deputy Director Ms. Fanny Penna, Treasurer Mr. Tomas Trinidad, Inwood Coalition for Health and Advocacy Dr. Allan Guggenbuehl, Founder and President KM, Zurich, USA, Sweden Prof. Haim Gaifman, Philosbphy Department at Columbia University Mr. Douglas Miranda, Boston Department of Health 4. Mythodraraa — a conflict resolution approach The Mythodrama Mythodrama is a conflict resolution approach that is applied during crisis intervention in problematic school classes, in group and trauma therapy, and in team development. Mythodrama works with myths/crypto-dogmas that dominate a specific group unconsciously, e.g. ,,We are victims,,, ,,We are the lonely heroes,,, etc. These myths or crypto-dogmas influence thinking patterns of groups and induce their emotional condition. During conflicts, when hostility, hatred, or violence predominates, the people involved fall back into these usually quiescent mythic patterns. The participants abandon the rational point of view. These instinctual forces affect their cognitive structures, perceptions, and emotions that take over during conflicts. If we want to deal effectively with conflicts, be it violence or mob behaviour, we have to consider these unconscious forces. Mythodrama works with the hypothesis that an archetypal dynamism is inert in the psyche of man. It chooses a story, legend, tale, or metaphor that reflects the respective myth. If the myth is made conscious, the group can proceed to work on it. These myths not only influence our conflict behaviour; they can also be the source of new ideas and solutions. In Mythodrama, specially trained psychologists use specific techniques to work with the mythic patterns of a group of people. The technique includes use of mental movers (ideas or images which irritate and therefore start a reflective process), group exercises, elements from art therapy and specially selected stories that symbolically reflect the myths, with which the group of children or adolescents identify. After having carried out the programme, the psychologist initiates concrete solutions or changes within the group or the system to which the group belongs. The solutions have to be an answer to problems defined before starting the program. The solutions are evaluated after a certain time period (follow-up). The aim of Mythodrama is to use the group's own imagination to disclose hidden resources and initiate concrete steps with which to solve the particular problem under which the group is suffering. Piano Workshop Classes and Educational Programs Concert Fees Topic. "Origins ol the Piano. Presenter Cost: Recital in Major Halls Compositions Black Composers" ....... *r-15^^^ 'Black Composers and the Europeans" Community Concerts "From the Slave Songs, Ragtime through jazz, and improvisation". Hall Week Resjdency "The Compositions of J.S. Bach 1 Week Residency: •&&;.-'._— >-_' ,"" and the Classical Black Composers" Seminars and Workshops: To be discussed^.. •;.'? "An approach to the Various Piano Techniques" 1 '.' Mailing Address: BlackArts Concert Management ±ical J_.s.as.r.i &&• j, i • T-.i*? ' Publicly: Musical America 1988 ^'.^ V Performing Arts Director 1933 Western Colorado Council - ,-. for the Arts 1988 m**m»f •-'•"•--^. ,..r -. PROFESSOR FELIPE HALL MAJOR PERFORMANCES AND EXPERIENCES MUSIC COMPOSITION (unpublished) Pianist, Musicologist, Composer, Scholar Winner of Young Concert Artist Guild 1964. award performance at "Town Hall" Piano Toccata Opus I Premiere Carnegie Recital Hall 1968 Seis Danzas Panamena (Premiered at Teatro San Leone Magno Rome 1976) Fairleigh Dickinson Perfomming Center 1970 Scherzo I Born Colon Panama, self taught at the age 13, a,id exposed to Retrospection/Introspection (Premiered at Unuversity of Colorado 1988) many forms of music influenced by Dr. John Motley (choral con- USATELEVISION APPEARANCES Scherzo II ductor, accompanist, Singer, Music Education), Mr. Melvin Hodge WNYC Recital Special host Leonard Altman, 1969 RAGTIME PIANO CONCERTO, not complete (Piano instructor and music educator), and Coleridge Perkinson WNBC Channel 4 Leon Bibbs 1969 African dance suite (10 dances) (Composer, Conductor, Arranger), private studies, tutoring in the- WNBC Channel 4 Solo Special produced by Leon Bibbs 1969 HOMAGE