It’s ‘infectious’
This is the second time that Musicopia has come to the Please Touch Museum for the Lullaby project. Sean Evans, the Please Touch Museum’s Museum Learning Coordinator, called the program infectious.
“It’s almost, like, hypnotizing,” Evans said. “You don’t even know you’re reaching that state. It was so funny. We were just humming and singing, repeating words, and then they started incorporating body movement, and the next thing you know, I’m doing things with my hands. I don’t even know what I’m doing, but this feels so wonderful. It really is just such an incredible program.”
Musician Lia Manaker, who played the piano, has worked with the program before, but was excited to share it with her 3-year-old daughter for the first time.
“I love how people can surprise themselves, that they can write a song that speaks to them, that feels like a real song,” she said. “I’m hoping that the process of creating and making music connects the people in a way where they feel like ‘I can do this.’”
Nathan Rifenburg, Musicopia’s program director, said that parents often come into the room a little self-conscious.
“At first they’re like … ‘I don’t know. I’m not really musical. I don’t think I can do that,’ he said. “But I think as they discover that connection that they actually then have, and there’s this way to express their love and a format that is really vulnerable for them.”