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site updated Spring 2019
Music is for all of us - including Deaf Children & ADults with DIsabilities
Above: 1/11/2019 Kean/CAU Collaborative Concert - Inspire.Believe.Uplift
May 24th, 2018, Columbia University Teachers College - Presentation on Community Music by M. Modero, L. Schraer-Joiner, G. Hinchecliff-Toole, and Bob Rocco
Above: June 2018 CAU Composer Workshop #2
Above: Maureen Butler (left) and I with one of the two Briarcliff MIddle School clasess, Spring 2017.
Nature of Composition Workshop for CAU was held at Kean University the third week of August, 2017.
Above: On 5/10/17, CAU Rock Band opened for the NJSO. Bob (far left) played lead guitar for Don't Stop Believin'.
Above left: July 2016 - Dr. Schraer (middle) and Nicole Olearchik with Bob after their presentation at the International Society of Music Educators (ISME) pre-conference seminar on Special Music Education and Music Therapy, held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (above right, St. Leonards Hall pictured). The presentation title was Aging Out of IDEA: Preparing Special Learners for Life After Public Schools.
Below: January 2016 - The "We're All in This Together" collaborative community concert was a huge success! Bob taught members of Community Access Unlimited to perform the first movement of Beethoven's fifth symphony on the radio baton. Click on the image below to see an online article about the concert.
Terrell Ross (left) and John Drescher (Center) rehearsing with Bob before the concert.
Music for Deaf Children Research
Bob's music for deaf children research was published in a journal article (ISBN: 978- ‐0- ‐9942055- ‐3- ‐7) co-authored with Dr. Lyn Schraer-Joiner of Kean Univeristy and Maureen Butler of the Lake Drive School for the Deaf, entitled The Concert Series for the Deaf and Radio Baton Project: Two Unique Music Projects with Applications for the Music Classroom. Dr. Schraer presented the research at the International Society of Music Educators 2014 annual conference in Brazil.
Click here for Maureen Butler's article about the radio baton collaboration for Tempo Magazine's May 2015 issue. (see pages 50-51)
Maureen Butler (left), Bob, and Dr. Schraer
Click here for an Audio performance of Grand American Tapestry, the radio baton composition used in the melodic recognition portion of the project