What is The Listening Project?
The global pandemic of COVID 19 has separated the Germantown Performing Arts Center (GPAC) Youth Symphony Program from physically participating in one of the communities that gives us identity, allows us to express and hone our talents, and provides us physical, mental, and artistic care.
Music can play a powerful roll during this time in both helping us come to grips with our valid feelings of isolation and providing us hope and some temporary space to imagine and dream again. With The Listening Project, we wanted to know what music was either helping our musicians better understand the isolation and anxiety or expressing comfort and hope. We asked students to share a song or piece of music and, if they wanted to, a short description of their choice. It’s our hope that these songs of clarity and hope will provide empathy and encouragement as we walk through this difficult time together. |
Where words fail, music speaks.” |
To view The Listening Project, click here:
We have also compiled the music of The Listening Project into a Spotify playlist. To open the playlist, click here: