Their Own Orchestra
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Last September we decided to have an orchestra. This was rather like having an idea and finding the bricks and mortar afterwards. Actually it was not bricks and mortar, but human beings, with whom we were concerned, and we felt that our ground plan would have to be fairly elastic to allow for their various idiosyncrasies. We had had a good deal of music in a passive way at Warlingham for some time past, and we felt it was about time that we indulged in a form of what Slavson calls " Activity Group Therapy ". This meant that we should confine our orchestra to patients, if possible. Staff members generally improve the standard of performance, but that is not the primary aim of a therapeutic orchestra. An additional reason for not having them in the orchestra is that they may find it difficult to treat patient-members on
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