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“But it always circles back to music. ’My cousin T.S.’ — Thelonious Monk’s son — ’talks about jazz as a metaphor for democracy. It teaches you to be part of a group and support the leader,’ and also teaches you ’when to step out and lead. It taught me leadership more than anything. It taught me to take risk.’ In gospel, she said, ’nothing is notated. You learn the basics of a song and make it yours.’
‘I want to see everyone who has a song, have an opportunity to share that song,’ Flake continued. ’Every kid that’s sitting there with a song running through their head — I’d love for them to express that song.’ So the work of education must continue. ’There is this really important work that’s out there and young people need us,’ she said. ’So many people appear to be afraid of young people, especially teenagers.’
But ’we were once kids, and there were people who poured into us and helped us develop into who we are.”
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‘With Music Flowing, Rehabbed Environmental Center Opens in East Rock Park’
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‘At STEAM Summer Camp, Students Learn From One of Their Own’
In Collaboration with The Monk Center Talented and Creative Youth Camp.
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‘Yale School of Medicine and Quinnipiac Partner on Arts & Anatomy Science Academy for New Haven Public School Students’
