Please send your scores and parts for the victims of the April earthquakes in Italy! The Conservatory in L'Aquila, Italy was leveled in the April earthquakes. All printed music, teaching materials and instruments that were not personally carried out of the buildings were lost forever. To find out if we could be of help, I contacted Patricia Adkins Chiti, President of the "Music for the Mind" project in Rome that supplies countries in difficulty or at war with music and teaching materials. She wrote: "Many persons left their houses in pajamas but with an instrument in hand. Many more lost their instruments. Some didn't make it out of the falling houses." She said that, for the rest of this year, 2009, all donations to "Music for the Mind" will be for the musicians in the earthquake ravaged region.
She asks: "Do you have scores and sets of instrumental parts that you can send copies of? We are looking for ALL kinds of music, for all ensembles and at all levels, composed by men or women, dead or alive; the music can be third or fourth hand. We are circulating this request to orchestras, chamber ensembles , individual musicians, publishers and libraries around the world. We are asking all donors to write their names on the scores: this is a way of underlining the purpose for "'Music for the Mind' we care - we share."
The Director of the l'Aquila Conservatory said that the arrival of scores will be an injection of optimism for all and will encourage the musicians to pick up their instruments and play.
All donations of sheet music need to be sent in hard copy (NO electronic attachments such as pdf files) to the following address:
"Music for the Mind- l'Aquila" Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica Via Riboty 23 00195 Rome Italy http://www.donneinmusica.org _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
