From Tricia Tunstall and Eric Boooth, an eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistema-intensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty.
Playing for Their Lives
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- 2 books
Tricia Tunstall
Tricia Tunstall is a writer, teacher, and musician. She has maintained a private piano studio for over fifteen years in Maplewood, New Jersey, where she teaches approximately 35 students per week. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Music History at Drew University. She has previously taught music in community college and in public schools. She earned a B.A. in philosophy at Yale University and pursued graduate studies at Manhattan School of Music and at Columbia University, where she earned her master’s degree in musicology. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Music Education at Boston University. As a writer, she has published numerous short stories in journals such as the Kenyon Review and the Antioch Review, as well as a wide variety of freelance articles in The New York Times, New Jersey Monthly, Mothers Today, and Fortune Small Business, among others. She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.
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