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Feb 2, 2010 -- "The conference room was packed with fitness professionals looking for the latest thing to bring home to their health clubs and senior centers. But instead of yoga mats and dumbbells lining the floor, everyone was outfitted with just one thing: a conductor's baton. When the music cranked up, it wasn't techno or hip-hop, but Sousa and Strauss. And leading it all was David Dworkin, a 75-year-old New York-based conductor and clarinetist who retired from a life of international performance and came up with Conductorcise — a one-hour aerobics-style class that blends conducting with music appreciation." |
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CONDUCTORCISE® has traveled far and wide in live programs across America since it began just a few years ago. Called “a symphony performance, music history lesson, and aerobics workout all rolled into one” by The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, CONDUCTORCISE® has excited and intrigued audiences from coast to coast. Dworkin has successfully brought his program to people of all ages, from pre-school children and teenagers to healthy seniors and those in assisted-living facilities, as well as stroke and Alzheimer’s patients. Combining the musical, educational, and aerobic, CONDUCTORCISE® gets participants enthused about classical music, and keeps them engaged, thinking, and in motion. During Dworkin‘s distinguished career as a clarinetist and conductor, he has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Symphony, Vermont Symphony, and many others, and was music director for three PBS television documentaries in the series Grow Old With Me: The Poetry of Aging and for the CBS-TV production of Kurt Weill’s Three Penny Opera. The International Council on Active Aging (ICAA) is dedicated to changing
the way people age by uniting professionals in the retirement, assisted
living, fitness, rehabilitation and wellness fields to dispel society's
myths about aging. |
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January 15, 2010 January 21, 2010 Masonic Healthcare
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Recent Conductorcise Highlights Include: JCC of Stamford Encore program of Orange County, Orange County Community College School of Alternative and Complimentary Medicine. UMDNJ "Self Help Community Linkage for Nazi Victims (Holocaust Survivors), Bronx House Senior Center Borgess Center for Diabetes Care Healthy Halloween, Central Park, New York, NY (15,000 attendees) Robert Wood Johnson Children’s Hospital: Women’s Health and Wellness Convention New Brunswick, NJ (400 participants) American Heart Association Walkathon, Essex County, NJ (1,500 warm-up enthusiasts) Riverdale Y, (Holocaust Survivors) Riverdale, NY University Of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (200 participants) West Hollywood Comprehensive Service Center, West Hollywood, CA Palm Beach Community College, Lake Worth, FL Westchester Rehabilitation Center, Mt. Vernon Pima County Health Expo Tucson, AZ South Florida Health Expo, Boca Raton, FL Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Helen Hayes Hospital: Osteoporis Support and Education Club, West Haverstraw, NY Orange County Community College: Encore program for Seniors Special Children’s performance,
Florida Library, Florida, NY Heritage Village, Southbury, CT, special performance combining pre-schoolers and seniors |
