Category: News and Media
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…