If you’re like me, you were touched by “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” the 1995 hit which garnered Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Richard Dreyfuss as a dedicated high school music teacher who has a profound effect on generations of students.
Committed to insuring the future of music education, the film’s composer, Michael Kamen, founded the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation a year later, and the non-profit organization has been helping to keep schools filled with the sound of music ever since.
The Foundation donates new and refurbished instruments to underserved schools, community music programs and individual students in an effort to inspire creativity and self-expression through the power of music.
So you know that old violin or trumpet you haven’t played since you were in high school? Why don’t you donate it to the Foundation, so it can go to someone who will actually use it?
Wouldn’t that be music to your ears?
This post originally appeared on my former blog, StyleSubstanceSoul.
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