UPDATE ·
Music in Return is launching.
After months of planning conversations, our first recitals are being scheduled. Here's what's coming, and how to be part of it.
A youth-led nonprofit
Empowering communities through an exchange that connects fellow performers and listeners alike
We take music to the places that need it most — senior centers, nursing homes, hospitals, and housing communities — all around Greater Boston. We revisit these places again and again, because we give music in return for creating connections that future generations can inherit.
Our Mission
A generation where music becomes a gift and an exchange
Music in Return believes that music can be given and received in equal measure. We bring live, therapeutic music to communities — senior centers, nursing homes, hospitals, and shelters where the arts are rarely accessible — and return again and again, documenting what happens in these rooms. Through performances, writing, and research, we create spaces where music becomes an exchange between students and elders, between performers and listeners, between community members and community members.
Our work begins in music. It concludes with attention.
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Just getting started — these numbers will grow as we go.
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What we do
Programs
Senior Centers
Afternoon recitals at senior centers, with familiar repertoire and time to talk afterward.
Learn moreNursing Homes & Memory Care
Shorter, gentler programs designed for nursing homes and memory-care communities, where music can reach where words sometimes cannot.
Learn moreHousing Communities
Free recitals at affordable housing, transitional housing, and community centers — often the first live classical concert residents have ever attended.
Learn moreYou and your group changed something in my heart today. Truly. I've never felt such happiness, joy, and hope in a long time.A listener, after our first concert · Providence, RI · August 2021
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FEATURE ·
Why we named it Music in Return.
The name came from a conversation about what we hoped would happen after a concert — not during it.