Music Instruction Music Instruction

Award-winning music lessons, ensembles, and group classes for aspiring musicians of all ages and skill levels — children, teens, and adults.

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Early Childhood Early Childhood

Morning & Full-Day Preschool programs with a full, child-centered curriculum of creative specials like music, science, drama, social and emotional learning, and more!

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Music Therapy Music Therapy

Established in 1966, our pioneering Center for Music Therapy (CMT) uses guided music experiences to help individuals meet life's challenges.

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BOP STOP BOP STOP

BOP STOP at The Music Settlement is Cleveland's premier listening room: an intimate, acoustically pristine performance venue with sweeping views of Lake Erie.

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Music Film Series

Ages: 18+
Session Length: One Day

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Join The Music Settlement's Creative Aging Department for a summer series celebrating your favorite musical films on the big screen!

The musical documentary spans genres and decades, from pristine reproductions of famed concerts to in-depth looks “behind the music,” following artists as they create in real time, to the musical biopic and the virtuosic performances the medium has inspired. We will explore the inner-workings of the music documentary, analyzing concert performances, behind-the-scenes footage of your favorite artists creating their greatest hits, and more!

From such classics as Stop Making Sense to Summer of Soul to This is Spinal Tap, this course welcomes learners 18+ to explore this varied genre and ask the question: what makes for a great musical performance on film?

This series is for adult students ages 18+.

Drop-In Session Dates:

  • Thursday, July 11 - The Concert Film
  • Thursday, July 25 - Music Behind the Scenes
  • Thursday, August 8 - The Musical Biopic
  • Thursday, August 22 - Parody and Pastiche

This program is free of charge, but donations are welcome! All donations will support the mission of The Music Settlement and the talented team who coordinates these events.

This program is made possible by support from the Cuyahoga County Division of Senior and Adult Services through the Health Aging Grant funding from the Ohio Department of Aging.

Faculty

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Kelli Minelli

Donor & Database Manager

Dr. Kelli Minelli is a musicologist and scholar, serving as the Donor & Database Manager at The Music Settlement. Kelli comes to TMS from Piano Cleveland where she began her career in advancement and fundraising as their Development Officer. Kelli holds a B.A. in Vocal Performance from the Uni... Expand

Dr. Kelli Minelli is a musicologist and scholar, serving as the Donor & Database Manager at The Music Settlement. Kelli comes to TMS from Piano Cleveland where she began her career in advancement and fundraising as their Development Officer.

Kelli holds a B.A. in Vocal Performance from the University of New Hampshire and a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from Case Western Reserve University. During her time at CWRU, she was a Research Fellow at the Library of Congress in 2018, where she later completed her dissertation archival research. Her work focuses on the relationships between singing, narrative, and agency in films and musicals, with a specialty in animation. Her doctoral dissertation is titled, “The Whole Other World of Ashman and Menken: Broadway Conventions in Disney’s ‘Renaissance’ Musicals” and is accessible via OhioLINK. She has presented her research at regional and national conferences, including the Society for American Music and the American Musicological Society, and has a chapter in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook to the Television Musical.

Kelli is an avid educator; she has taught private and group voice lessons, undergraduate courses at CWRU, and most recently, has presented musical theatre programming at the Cuyahoga Country Public Libraries in partnership with Playhouse Square. She is a lifelong crafter and may be recognized from her work and teaching at The Artful Yarn in Chagrin Falls.

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