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Pipeline (SPP) by Wendel Patrick confronts the harsh reality faced by young people growing up in disadvantaged situations. The work takes a hard look at the “school-to-prison pipeline," the distressing nationwide tendency in which the public school system fails to support its students and instead funnels them into the criminal justice system.

"A musical conception of the school to prison pipeline.

Having engaged through the arts with students in Baltimore City schools for twenty years, I have witnessed the stark contrast and clear disparity between resources effectively denied to schools and students in areas of poverty and those available to schools and students in more affluent communities. A few years ago, when I was working with a remedial reading class in a Baltimore City public school, I asked the teacher if the students would be reading their assigned book at home. I was informed that there were no books for the remedial reading students to take home and that there was only one book for the entire class to use. Though it was early in the school year, the teacher had already exhausted her photocopying budget in her personal attempt to provide reading material for the students. This is one of many glaring but all too commonly found examples of a public school system creating scenarios for its students where failure is all but guaranteed. In the same school, there was an armed guard patrolling the school halls. Physical altercations that might lead to detention or suspension in wealthier schools would instead lead to arrests and criminal charges for these students. The result: These students enter the criminal justice system at an early age.

The opening of Pipeline (SPP) symbolizes the hope, innocence, potential, and power of a child. As the mood shifts, the music moves to illustrate a student’s passage through childhood and an educational system much like the one described above, showing flashes of that same promise while passing through stages of disillusionment, betrayal, abandonment, and, ultimately,
resignation.

Please strongly consider volunteering in an underfunded city school. The system needs help, and your time and talents can make a difference in the trajectory of a student’s life."

-Wendel Patrick

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released February 6, 2019
Composed by Wendel Patrick
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Performed and Commissioned by Lior Willinger
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Video and Audio Post-Production by Four/Ten Media
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Audio Engineering by Atticus Hebson and Noah Frank

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