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d important concerts e to approach teaching is pandemic? Are you reativity and personal Cairo, Egypt. What was really most interesting was not only was I conducting classes back home in Birmingham but also consulting on another project at the University of Hawaii and Word of Life Academy in Honolulu, HI, as far around the globe from each other in distance and time zone as one could be. hrough the use of a hardware platforms our ave been fully equipped ccommodate distance udio and video to and structor's computer in ll in the room together. t control or take control virtual classroom. This tudents to share their lass and discuss them many years it has been ximize the use of these traveled the world. I y conducting classes as a distinguished American University in [WM] Your recent nationwide PBS special, Dreams of Hope, was a remarkable event uniquely uniting the plight of the Jewish people during the Holocaust, and the history of the African American. It was significant that it was hosted at Birmingham’s 16 th Street Baptist Church, and that a musical instrument, the violin, was the catalyst. I was immensely impacted when I watched it several times. Tell us about this project. [Henry] Dreams of Hope is a documentaryconcert celebrating the power of music, with a captivating storyline centered around Birmingham's historic Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and violins restored from concentration camps on the Jewish holocaust, referred to as Subscribe for Free...