Puffin West continues its support for the North Shore Music Festival, an initiative held annually in June that provides classical music performances and musical educational opportunities with excellence and emotional enrichment. Internationally-renowned classical music performers and hardworking young music students will again extend an opportunity to the students of the International Center on Deafness and the Arts to work side by side with these world-class musicians. These deaf students will share with the community how even though they cannot hear music like the rest of us, they have a unique talent of interpreting music through the beauty of sign language and vibration. In 2012, the story of the musical score of “Ferdinand the Bull” which was played by violinist Vadim Gluzman on his Stradivarius was translated into sign. Our grant will give these students free admission to all the concerts and it also will also give them the opportunity to perform on stage moved by the vibrations. These experiences provide the students with extraordinary creative empowerment and instills a sense of self-confidence. The Fourth season will take place on June, 4,6 and 7th at the Village Presbyterian Church in Northbrook IL and will be broadcasted live on Chicago’s Classical Radio station WFMT.
