"The Role of Collegiate Faculty and Administrators in Addressing Musicians’ Health"

College Music Society Committee on Musicians’ Health
Gail Berenson, Chair

Remembering our Own

Across the country, faculty are greeting new students, and many for the first time.  This past weekend was a time for me to reflect on the remembrance associated with the U.S. observance of Labor Day, but with a twist.  I think here of the labor of mind and heart that our members bring to higher education as teaching artists, composers, music educators, music industry specialists, historians, theorists, conductors, ethnomusicologists, music therapists, and performers.  Although different from the trade unionist labor associated with the founding of the federal holiday, our careers in music, sustained over the years by joy, sweat equity, care, and grit are significant.