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The Music Lesson

*Canadian Premiere

Themes: music, cross-cultural communication, indigenous education, Kenyan life and culture 

Triumph in Africa, not tragedy. Collaboration, not charity. Abundance of spirit, not poverty of resources. The Music Lesson tells the story of two groups of young people from extraordinarily different backgrounds as they use the power of music to discover each other's worlds. Ten classically trained students from the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra traveled across the world for a life-changing cultural exchange with a group of students from Laikipia, Kenya, whose tribal elders have passed down the tradition of playing music. One day can change your life. These teenagers had 10.

preceeded by short film Hungu

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