To view our performances, please visit our YouTube channel.
Me2/ is receiving attention from local and national media outlets. Please click on the links in blue to watch/listen/read:
VIDEO & RADIO
- Click here to see Me2/ on the NBC Today Show, “Meet the classical musicians inspiring people with mental illnesses” (February 2020)
- Click here to visit the website for “Orchestrating Change,” the upcoming documentary about Me2/. A brief preview is available on the home page (2019).
- Click here to watch an interview on WGBH, “Combatting the Stigma Against Mental Illness Through Music” with Jim Braude (October 2019)
- Folks Video Story: An Orchestra for Everyone by John Brownlee (July 2018)
- Click here to view the “Stuck in Vermont” video about Me2/’s Bach in the Subways performance (March 2016)
- Click here to watch a news piece about Me2/Orchestra created by Al Jazeera English (April 2014)
- Click here to watch the “First Person” video by BBC News featuring Ronald Braunstein and Me2/Orchestra (January 2013)
- WCAX-TV 3 produced a news piece about the Me2/ cello trio “Music in the Prisons” tour (August 2012)
To view our performances, please visit our YouTube channel.
- “Conductor works through autism, depression, cancer to lead Burlington orchestra” by Brent Hallenbeck, Burlington Free Press, November 19, 2019
- “Conductor started Boston ensemble for musicians With mental illness: “I wanted to form an orchestra of people like me” by David Weininger, Boston Globe, October 11, 2019
- “This one of a kind orchestra is trying to reduce the stigma of mental health diagnoses” by Erin Trahan, WBUR The ARTery, October 9, 2019
- “Beyond the Stigma: Orchestra offers a safe place to shine“ by Shawne Wickham, New Hampshire Union Leader, March 2, 2019
- “Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness Through Music” by Michele Hollow, New York Times, January 29, 2019
- “The World’s Only Classical Music Ensemble for the Mentally Ill” by Ray Cavanaugh, Folks, May 2017
- “Conductor Ronald Braunstein–Making Music, Fighting Stigma” by Robin Flanagan, bp Magazine, Winter 2017
- “Me2/Orchestra strikes the right note on mental illness” by Bill Brownstein, Montreal Gazette, April 2015
- “Me2/Orchestra makes music and nurtures musicians in a ‘stigma free zone'” by Andy Steiner, MINNPOST, October 2014
- “Opera singer spreads mental illness awareness” by Brent Hallenbeck, Burlington Free Press, June 2014
- “Conductor creates musical outlet for people with mental illness” by Elizabeth Bloom, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 2014
- “Braunstein’s Me2/Orchestra plays right notes with inclusive message” by Toby Tabachnick, The Jewish Chronicle, February 2014
- “For this orchestra, playing music is therapeutic” by Dave Gram, Associated Press, January 2014
- “Playing for Mental Health” by Brent Hallenbeck, Burlington Free Press; November 2012
