Student and faculty from the School of Music have joined with area musicians to create a CD for Hospicare and Palliative Services for Tompkins County. Entitled “Beauty Crowds Me,” after a poem by Emily Dickinson, the CD offers the therapeutic power of music to Hospicare patients and their families. “Beauty Crowds Me” is available for purchase online and at several local venues. All proceeds will benefit Hospicare.
Three years in the making, “Beauty Crowds Me” includes performances by the Ithaca College Women’s Chorale directed by Janet Galván; faculty musicians Elizabeth Simkin (cello), Nicholas Walker (composer and double bass) and Wendy Herbener Meyne (flute); Uganda-born singer and multi-instrumentalist Samite; Ithaca-area harpists Jayne Demakos and Evangeline Ray; and Hospicare’s vocal ensemble Schola Cantorum.
Alex Perialas, director of the Sound Recording Technology Program and owner of Pyramid Sound, was the sound engineer, with assistance from students in the sound recording technology program. Brian Dozoretz, manager of recording services, was the lead engineer.
In addition, “Beauty Crowds Me” received support from the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute, a part of the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies, and the Linden Center for Creativity and Aging.
“Beauty Crowds Me” is available free for Hospicare patients. Others may purchase it online at www.amazon.com, Hospicare (172 E. King Road) and the following Ithaca businesses:
15 STEPS, Center Ithaca, The Commons
HANDWORK, 102 W. State St.
AMERICAN CRAFTS BY ROBBIE DEIN, The Commons
BELLE MELANGE, 210 W. State St.
GREENSTAR, 701 W. Buffalo Street
TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES, The Commons
BUFFALO STREET BOOKS, DeWitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga St.
FIBERS, Center Ithaca, The Commons
JULIE STONE HAIR SALON, The Commons
BARNES & NOBLE, 614 S. Meadow St.
PADMA, 114 W. Buffalo St.
BORDERS, the Shops at Ithaca Mall
RASA SPA, 310 Taughannock Blvd.
MOOSEWOOD, 215 N. Cayuga St.
STARBUCKS, 130 E. Seneca St.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20091211135452848