(This summer program offers an excellent opportunity to the blind music student who is seriously considering entering college to study music. The program is sponsored by the Music and Arts Center for the Handicapped and administered by our friend and colleague, David Goldstein of their National Resource Center for Blind Musicians. Please see the end of the brief announcement below for his contact details and direct all follow-up inquiries to him.) *** Music students who read contracted English braille and who are in their last years of high school or already in college are invited to request applications for the National Resource Center's Summer Braille Music Institute. The program will be held July 15-21 at the Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia. Focused around developing ability to read braille music and to submit theory assignments in print, this intensive provides braille music practice catered to each student's needs, systematic instruction in Dancing Dots' Lime Aloud and GOODFEEL software, and theory classes which progress from basic concepts to harmonic analysis. Applications have several steps, including submission of an audition, and recommendation forms to be completed by teachers. Final Enrollment is limited to six students. Application deadline is May 2. Further information is at www.blindmusicstudent.org/summer_institute.htm The best way to request an application package is to E-mail or call David Goldstein, director of the National Resource Center for Blind Musicians. info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or 203-366-3300, x229. PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq