Sept. 17, 2014
There’s a Lesson Here; All You Have to Do Is Listen
Roger Nierenberg and the Music Paradigm Program
I couldn’t have been more skeptical. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
The conductor Roger Nierenberg took his Music Paradigm, an elaborate show-and-tell executive learning class based heavily on role playing, to the Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center recently for an audience of nursing directors from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. I had witnessed far too many slick, self-serving attempts to use musical pap as a tool for spiritual uplift or personal motivation, and Mr. Nierenberg, I thought, might as well have been selling snake oil.
But no, I quickly realized, he was making real music and making good sense…
Click here to read the full story from the New York Times, by James Oestreich
