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OPUS HML SINGERS: Music Over Time
Music programs in our public schools continue to suffer from alarming funding cuts; the consequences transcend mere reductions of musical performances.
During 1984-1990, Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School in Miami, Florida, was home to an award-winning ensemble known as The HML Singers. The ensemble's director, Dr. Karyl Carlson, realized their uniqueness then and now. They continue to maintain a strong connection regardless of locale. A cinematic vision, weaving the singers' past stories together with their present lives, began to take shape in Karyl’s mind as she realized their continued bond to one another. The impact that music and the arts can have on peoples' quality of life cannot be underestimated. The documentary OPUS HML SINGERS: Music Over Time, will have a significant impact on arts advocacy and music education programs. Your funding help is vital to complete the film. OPUS HML SINGERS: Music Over time
Why are funds requested?
- cover crew for on-location filming sessions and expenses
- cover video editing, video colorization
- sound design
- defray filming expenses (rental fee of specialized equipment, film crew, location fees, license fees)
- producer/director expenses (equipment purchase, travel, music, editing materials, legal licensing, digital conversion, HML Yearbooks)
- website development and hosting
- duplication and distribution, screening rental costs
The film’s scope includes student, educator, and administrator perspectives who are directly involved in music programs from Chicago to Miami to San Francisco.
True to the film’s inspiration, OPUS HML will highlight how being involved in music at a young age critically influenced many HML Singers' life paths. It fostered a life-long passion for music, gave them a place to fit in, and even saved some young lives. "HML Singers made a good school great," recalled the late William Noble. (HML Principal, 1985 –1990)
The film will be made available free to its target audience, including individuals, schools, non-profit arts education advocacy organizations, professional music organizations, administrators, legislators, parents, and future music educators.
Together we can make a difference to help the arts thrive, whether you assist with $5, $20, or more. OPUS HML is intended to demonstrate the great impact and investment needed in schools and communities today. The HML Singers' commitment to music, community, and each other, remains ever-so-powerful over thirty years.
Please join our voices! Thank you!