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- Erik Nycklemoe
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- "The Power of Song"
- Summary: In Athens, Ohio the ATCO Sheltered Workshop for developmentally disabled adults is making money - and art! Their 'outsider art' made $100,000 last year. This year, with a new project, their art is filling our ears as well as our eyes. Their new CD features songs written by disabled artists and set to music
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Review of The Power of Song
Erik Nycklemoe
Posted on February 09, 2005 at 06:59 AM
This feature starts out with a scene from the Athens public library where a group of college students are helping disabled adults write poetry. Someone had the idea to set some of the poetry to music. 12 Athens have jumped on the project and produced a CD with some really nice sounds. There were a lot of scenes and some great music mixes in this feature. I especially liked the interview with one poet Serena and the musician who set her poem to music. The musician comments that Serena feels deeply and thinks about the same things that a 30-year-old musician does. This was a very nice piece—I only wish I would have heard more from the disabled adult poets. Check it out this is a well done feature.