As the coronavirus pandemic continues to make headlines, Berklee College of Music student Shelbie Rassler is sharing a simple message: What the world needs now is love. NBC’s Harry Smith has this week’s Sunday Closer.
On March 14, Shelbie Rassler, a composition major in her senior year at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, flew home to Fort Lauderdale, Florida as the coronavirus was shutting down the campus she loved. An ambitious 22-year-old who has written music for a Lexus commercial and a PBS documentary, she was shaken and upset.
Being sent home from college due to the coronavirus pandemic did not stop a group of music students from showing off their musical talents together.Students from the Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee in Boston formed a virtual orchestra to perform a touching remake of Burt Bacharach's 1960s classic song "What the World Needs Now is Love."
A young South Florida woman is the musical mind behind a creative music video. While away from school, she was determined to spread love during these difficult times.
When Boston Conservatory at Berklee senior Shelbie Rassler flew back to South Florida after the coronavirus pandemic forced students home, she was devastated. Rassler, an alto saxophone player and drummer from Weston, studies classical composition at Berklee, so this was a challenge she was indeed equipped to handle.
A video created by students at the Berklee College of Music is going viral. The group created a virtual orchestra, performing "What the World Needs Now" while remaining socially distanced.
