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- 1986-2012 (Creation)
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22 cm of textual records
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Subseries consists of scripts, handouts, notes, correspondence, brochures, and other supporting materials for workshops by Michael Colgrass, including his Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) series, "Excellence in Performance" workshop, "Deep Listening" workshop, "Vision" workshop, "The Language Maze" workshop (previously "Tuning the Human Instrument"), "Meet the Composer," and a proposed Rockefeller Theatre Project (which led to Nightingale, Inc.).
Subseries also includes notes for Colgrass' workshops at public schools: Longmeadow (including articles about this experience); Winona Drive (including collaborative score created with children); and Rockcliffe Park (including collaborative score created with children, titled "Les Sauvages"); Frances Shames Community Music School (diagrams of "As Quiet As," created by children).
Subseries also contains scripts for other speeches given by Michael Colgrass, including the commencement address at the University of Illinois (1995), a speech that he gave at Toronto City Council (2004), and statements and correspondence relating to his time on the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) board.
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Descriptions of Michael Colgrass' workshops from his website:
- Deep Listening: A workshop for music lovers. Techniques for listening to various styles of music in new ways. Maximum 50 people.)
- Vision: A workshop for creating your future. For entrepreneurs in any profession (2 hours)
- The Language Maze (TM): A workshop on how to use language to persuade and influence (one full day). For teachers, trainers, organizers, therapists, politicians, litigation lawyers, or anyone for whom communication and the elicitation of information is critical.
- Excellence in Performance: This is a participatory workshop, not a lecture. Performers wear loose clothing and will be physically as well as mentally active throughout the three 3-hour sessions. Colgrass' goal is to quickly re-route undesirable performing habits, and participants often report noticeable changes in their performance after only one day in his workshops.
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Colgrass got interested in these techniques of modeling and became an NLP trainer, whom [John] Grinder used in his workshops, especially as related to creativity, performance and self-hypnosis. Colgrass now teaches NLP as an alternate activity to his composing, traveling the world and working with people in various professions. His workshops on stage fright, and work with private individuals suffering from performance anxiety, has gained a wide reputation.