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2023 Articles and Interviews
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In September 2023, a writer for the Harvard Crimson attended the public Songs of Life concert and reported on it. Read here about his experience of the concert and his interview about Shelter Music Boston's mission with founder Julie Leven, artistic director Adrian Anantawan, and musicians Amy Sims and Rebecca Strauss.
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Massachusetts newspapers The Boston Sun and the Boston Globe and the news website Boston.com published articles previewing the September Songs of Life public concert. For SMB's 2023 Artistic Project, Songs of Life, four local composers created new works based on stories and selections of music gathered from SMB's partner site listeners. The result was a series of commissioned compositions for string quartet based upon songs of significant importance to our audiences. Check out these links to read the articles!
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GBH interviewed SMB's artistic director Adrian Anantawan, SMB board member Jesse Edsell-Vetter, and composer Francine Trester about Shelter Music Boston and the then-upcoming Songs of Life public concert. Check out the interview as well as a special live performance by an SMB string quartet of an arrangement of Survivor's Eye of the Tiger and the original composition Tiger Eye, a piece Francine Trester wrote inspired by Eye of the Tiger, here (the segment starts at 37:55)! Or check out WGBH's article about the interview here!
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Prior to the 2023 Songs of Life concert, WBZ News Radio interviewed SMB's artistic director Adrian Anantawan as part of "New England Weekend." You can listen to him discuss the inspiration for Shelter Music Boston's Songs of Life artistic project and how the project played out in this segment!
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In the news 2021!
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In November, SMB Managing Director Carrie Eldridge-Dickson and SMB Artistic Director Adrian Anantawan joined Radio Boston host Tiziana Dearing for a conversation discussing the pivot SMB has made during COVID-19. If you missed the interview, click here to listen. Broadway World published a feature on Shelter Music Boston's Voices From the Land project.
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Shelter Music Boston’s “Voices From The Land” project was featured on WGBH’s Open Studio with Jared Bowen. SMB Founder Julie Leven and Native American Composers Apprentice Project’s Sage Bond, one of the young composers included in this project, were interviewed. The SMB segment starts at 6:05.
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In an interview for BNN News, Indigenous composer Christina Shupla and SMB Founder Julie Leven speak about a project featuring Indigenous composers and Boston area musicians in the "Voices From The Land" online performances.
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2020 Interview
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On New England Weekend, Julie Leven discusses SMB's performances in homeless shelters and recovery centers across the state, and the SMB mission to assist vulnerable individuals with live music.
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2019 Articles and Interviews
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Anne Davenport, of the Boston Musical Intelligencer, discusses the character and importance of Florence Comes Home, a chamber opera commissioned by Shelter Music Boston. Read the article here. |
SMB Founder & Artistic Director Julie Leven visited Carmen Fields' show "Higher Ground," a monthly public affairs show at WHDH-TV, Boston’s Channel 7. They discussed the ethical and moral aspects of Shelter Music Boston mission delivery. Watch the interview here. |
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Julie articulated her vision for Shelter Music Boston during an interview at the Foxboro community cable TV network. Follow this link to watch the interview and videos from the 2018 world premiere of SMB's collaborative composition project, Water for My Soul. Aaron Keebaugh of the Boston Classical Review attended the premiere of "Florence Comes Home" at Pine Street Women's Inn. Click on the Boston Classical Review logo to the right for the review.
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SMB Founder & Artistic Director Julie Leven visited her alma mater, Oberlin College and Conservatory, where she spoke to students about her work and the mission of Shelter Music Boston. Here she is being interviewed by a current Oberlin student. 
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2018 Articles and Interviews
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Thank you to the Ilene Beal Charitable Foundation for our most significant grant to date.
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A 2016 highlight:
SMB Founder and Artistic Director Julie Leven was profiled in
Thank you to the Massachusetts Cultural Council for featuring
Shelter Music Boston in the 2016 premiere season of "Creative Minds Out Loud."
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Forbes Magazine published a profile of Shelter Music Boston and founder Julie Leven,
"Music Heals: Shelter Music Brings Classical Music To Homeless Shelters."
Click on the Forbes logo to read the article.
"Music Heals: Shelter Music Brings Classical Music To Homeless Shelters."
Click on the Forbes logo to read the article.
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