The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an intensive exploration of the repertoire of African American, African and African Diaspora concert composers for the university student, apprentice, teacher (private, high school or university), coach, choral conductor, church musician, professional singer, or organization administrator.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an intensive exploration of the repertoire of African American, African and African Diaspora concert composers for the university student, apprentice, teacher (private, high school or university), coach, choral conductor, church musician, professional singer, or organization administrator.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an intensive exploration of the repertoire of African American, African and African Diaspora concert composers for the university student, apprentice, teacher (private, high school or university), coach, choral conductor, church musician, professional singer, or organization administrator.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

In his interactive lecture, Thomas Hampson uses his transatlantic biography to look at song as an identity-forming force: personally, culturally and socially. Together with the audience and using audio examples, he discusses the role song art can play in collective and personal self-image in light of the USA's cultural mosaic of immigration history, political ideas and artistic diversity.