Category: News and Media
Newsday: Music therapy changes lives. Give more New Yorkers access to it.
PUBLISHED IN: NEWSDAY By Alexis Roderick Joel and Toby Williams • December 11, 2025 Music therapy changes lives. Give more New Yorkersaccess to it. This guest essay reflects the views of Alexis Roderick Joel, who is co-chair of The Joel Foundation, founded by her husband Billy Joel, and Toby Williams, director of the Music Therapy…
Crain’s: Park Slope Music School to Open $16M Facility for Music Therapy Institute
PUBLISHED IN: CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS By Amanda D’Ambrosio • October 20, 2025 Park Slope Music School to Open $16M Facility for Music Therapy Institute The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is doubling the capacity of its music therapy program for individuals with disabilities and mental illnesses with a new location in Park Slope. The conservatory,…
Crain’s Notable Leaders in Philanthropy 2025
PUBLISHED IN: CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS NOTABLE LEADERS IN PHILANTHROPY “To try to make the world in some way better than you found it is to have a noble motive in life,” wrote Andrew Carnegie in “The Empire of Business.” A man of his word, the Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist founded the Carnegie Corporation of…
Marketplace Feature: BKCM
PUBLISHED IN: MARKETPLACE One Saturday afternoon every spring, you can wander around the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn and see live music everywhere for free — jazz groups playing on brownstone stoops, drummers playing in gardens, big brass bands playing in streets temporarily closed to cars. This year, if you happened to walk down Seventh…
BKCM Music Therapy in the New York Times
PUBLISHED IN: THE NEW YORK TIMES A recent Sunday Times article provides an in-depth look at our music therapists’ impactful work with children at a shelter in Brooklyn, one of over 40 community-based music therapy sites across New York City. “We’re going to be making a beat,” Dannyele Crawford said as the kids settled noisily…