The Music Settlement Musings

“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone…” Joni Mitchell
I apologize for the lack of fresh copy from this blog for the past two months, as it’s been a busy time at The Music Settlement, and other priorities have jumped up to crowd blog writing off of my to-do list. Curiously, my lack of output has not been...

“…they roared their terrible roars, and gnashed their terrible teeth, and rolled their terrible eyes, and showed their terrible claws!” Maurice Sendak
Traveling for the holidays is just around the corner for many of us, and we all know what a joy that can be, but sometimes just getting there is the easy part. The fun starts when you decide to fill that holiday time away with as many “special” experiences...

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
When an organization is more than 98 years old as ours is, conventional wisdom calls it a treasure of the community that should be held in the highest esteem. But in truth, the real measure of The Music Settlement’s worth after so many years is not the...

There are a lot of reasons why it’s cool to work at The Music Settlement, and one of them is our health maintenance program. You might be surprised to learn that a community center for the arts even has a health maintenance program; it probably seems...