Music Making Leaders

This fall, BCC is working to put together a podcast on Sound Cloud featuring leaders in Boston who come from a music background. Entitled “Music Making Leaders,” the series seeks to understand how music previously impacted and continues to impact the lives of these highly successful individuals. The leaders we talk to have chosen paths other than music, but that certainly doesn’t mean that their passion for it is gone.

So far, we have had the chance to speak with Catherine D’Amato, president and CEO of The Greater Boston Food Bank and Taylor Bodman, a partner at Brown Brothers Harriman. Even though these leaders have chosen different paths from music, they continue to hearken back to the lessons they learned. It turns out that learning music translates into a pretty neat skill set that is easily applicable to a whole range of things. The correlation between a music background and success is a question many are currently exploring, just take a look at this recent New York Times Op-Ed entitled “Is Music the Key to Success?”

Even though the article talks about some of the most successful people alive, the true lesson is that you don’t have to be a Mozart or trained at Julliard to reap the benefits of a music background. Practicing music and exposure to some basic theory and perhaps composition teaches us to be creative problem solvers and thinkers. And it’s good for the soul, too.

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Listen to our interviews with Catherine D'Amato and Taylor Bodman here, with more to come! https://soundcloud.com/bostonchildrenschorus