Ep. 50 - Bridging Cultural Gaps and Fostering Empathy - Reena Esmail
"In choir we have a chance to learn to embody a different culture through its language. When you're singing pieces in another language, there's a moment where you have to feel that you speak that language if only for a few words, if only a few moments. I think that has the capacity to create a kind of empathy regardless of whether that's your culture or not. To embody it does create this empathy that I really believe in as a way to make our world a little closer for the right reasons."
Indian-American composer Reena Esmail works between the worlds of Indian and Western classical music, and…
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