Hear Your Song's 10th Anniversary Symposium & Concert w/ the Yale Glee Club
Celebrate ten years and some of the 500+ songs written by Hear Your Song's youth songwriters in the community where it all began!
Date and time
Location
Hendrie Hall, Room 201
165 Elm Street New Haven, CT 06511About this event
- 2 hours
Hear Your Song and the Yale Glee Club are thrilled to co-present
HEAR YOUR SONG'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM & CONCERT
featuring
- Members of the Yale Glee Club
- Members of Hear Your Song's Yale College chapter
- Youth songwriters in the Hear Your Song community
- Yale College alumni
MEET HEAR YOUR SONG
Hear Your Song is a Yale-founded 501(c)(3) nonprofit that empowers children and teens with serious illnesses and complex health needs, both physical and mental health diagnoses, to make their voices heard through collaborative songwriting. Ten years, after Hear Your Song got its start as a student organization, join us to celebrate the more than 500 youth songwriters who have brought their songs to life through this community. Join founding alumni, the current Yale undergraduate chapter, members of the Yale Glee Club, and some of the youth songwriters themselves for an afternoon of music, conversation, and food!
HOW DID HEAR YOUR SONG BEGIN?
One night in May 2014, a group of friends at Yale University crowded into a tiny studio to record a few songs: “The Cow Dances With Her Arms,” “A Warm Place,” and “Simba And I Are Not Friends (Just Kidding!).” These songs, with lyrics by Maria, Melissa, and Justice, pediatric residents at Elizabeth Seton Children’s in Yonkers, NY, marked the beginning of Hear Your Song’s adventures.
Dan Rubins and Rebecca Brudner co-founded Hear Your Song as a student organization when they were sophomores at Yale University. Hear Your Song’s first partnerships were with Elizabeth Seton Children’s in Yonkers, NY and Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital.
In March 2020, in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, Dan and Rebecca recognized that sick and immunocompromised kids needed a platform to share their stories and make their voices heard more than ever. That spring and summer, Hear Your Song began its national expansion, launching a virtual program model and building new campus-based chapters and partnerships.
Hear Your Song has now recorded well over 500 songs written by youth songwriters ages 6-18 across the country and around the world. In their songs, youth songwriters write about anything they want to share, from loving pasta to living with epilepsy.