Carnegie Hall teaching artists, from ukulele players to bassoonists, talk with the mothers about their dreams for their children. Based on those conversations, the mothers write a poem or letter, which the musician converts into song lyrics. RTB_Cheerful
. “We can go in and right away, people are rhyming, you know, boy with joy or night with light,” says Eagen. “And within five minutes, each song will be a completely different song from all the other songs that have those same rhymes.”
For Eagen, the Lullaby Project is nurturing a vital and underappreciated type of songwriting. “We don’t have a global vocabulary of songs that describe motherhood,” she says. “We have lullabies that describe the baby, and we have love songs. But love songs from parent to child? Over the past seven years, it’s been a real interest of mine to help create more of them.”
Cabaniss is particularly impressed with the Lullaby Project at the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in Alaska, which works with incarcerated Inuit women and men. When participants are released, they are offered a paid job with the Lullaby Project, teaching songwriting to other mothers. As he puts it, “They found a way to take that whole self-esteem idea and kind of pump it with steroids.
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