Calling all Musicians: Healing Haiti through Music

SYMPHONIC RELIEF FOR HAITI:

A Global Concert to benefit Partners In Health

January 31, 2010

Longwood Symphony Orchestra invites musicians around the world to join in a global effort to heal the Community in Haiti through musical performances.

We have all been struck by the horror and tragedy that has occurred in Haiti. As musicians, what can we do? LET’S DO WHAT WE DO BEST.

Longwood Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra of Boston’s medical community, invites musicians across the world to raise their voices and instruments as a unified musical community to perform a global concert to benefit Partners In Health.

The goal of Symphonic Relief for Haiti is:

• to raise $250,000 through the gift of music for the humanitarian work of

Partners In Health in Haiti
• to honor the men and women

of Partners In Health who are giving

their time and expertise

• to stand in solidarity with local Haitian communities

The objective for these concerts is to raise $250,000 for Partners In Health to support the ongoing relief work that we know must continue for years, even after the initial flurry of interest has waned.

Join us in this global effort through your gifts of music, song and financial support. Please notify us of all scheduled concerts and it will be posted on the Symphonic Relief for Haiti website.

What you and your ensemble can do:

If you have concerts already scheduled during the weekend of January 30-31:

Make an appeal from stage asking your audience to donate to Partners In Health

Ask volunteers to collect funds during intermission

Create an event page on PIH’s website, http://www.pih.org/ with the title listed as “Symphonic Relief for Haiti”

Insert an envelope for Partners In Health in your program books

Direct your donors to donate online:

http://act.pih.org/page/outreach/view/haitiearthquake/symphonicrelief

If you do not yet have a concert scheduled:

Hold a chamber music cultivation event at the home of a sponsor

Offer to perform in the Haitian community, seek sponsorship

Perform in a hospital in support of physicians traveling to Haiti, collect funds in the lobby

Direct your donors to donate online:

http://act.pih.org/page/outreach/view/haitiearthquake/symphoncrelief

DIRECTING THE FUNDS TO PARTNERS IN HEALTH

Once you have collected funds from your event, you can donate online at http://act.pih.org/page/outreach/view/haitiearthquake/symphonicrelief.

You can also write a check of the entire sum to Partners In Health. Please indicate that the contribution is part of Symphonic Relief for Haiti and mail to: Symphonic Relief

c/o Longwood Symphony Orchestra

P.O. Box 886

Brookline MA 02446

SPREADING THE WORD

• Please invite all of your musicians to think of ideas to creatively be a part of this movement, as a full ensemble and individually.
• Let us know what/where/when/funds raised! We are working on a Google map that can show ALL of the concerts happening around the world.
• If you have a press release about your project, please send it to us at info@longwoodsymphony.org so we can post it on our shared website.
• If you have any other ideas, feel free to contact us at info@longwoodsymphony.org or 617.667.1527.