harman: how to listen is a touring music-appreciation course targeting multicultural, urban elementary schools for children ages eight to ten. The program's master-class presentations are conducted to accommodate groups of one hundred and fifty to two hundred students.
harman: how to listen takes an interactive, participatory approach designed to explore, with young minds and young ears, new ways of “how and what" to listen for in music. Using the harman: how to listen curriculum, music teachers can bring to life musical concepts as simple as identifying instruments to the more complex elements of melody, rhythm, harmony, form and meter through performance and dialogue.
Who created harman: how to listen?
harman: how to listen was created in the spring of 1996 by two distinctive innovators: Dr. Sidney Harman and Wynton Marsalis. A pioneer in the field of high-fidelity sound equipment, Dr. Sidney Harman is the founder and chairman of Harman International Industries, Inc. Wynton Marsalis, a multi Grammy
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