Music is everywhere! It’s cool, only humans can create it (and maybe some smart animals), we compose music, learn to play an instrument and really listen to music. It’s pretty incredible that fingers can create such beautiful melodies that move us to dance, feel deep emotions and even shop! Powerful stuff! It’s in the grocery store, on TV, in movies, video games. You listen in your car, sing songs to help remember things, and learn how to play an instrument.
Here’s an excerpt from a wonderful article by Peter Greene in the Huffington Post. It really nails it!
“Why would we not want to know more about something constantly present in our lives? Would you want to live in a world without music? Then why would you want to have a school without music?
Listening to music is profoundly human. It lets us touch and understand some of our most complicated feelings. It helps us know who we are, what we want, how to be ourselves in the world. And because we live in an age of vast musical riches from both past and present, we all have access to exactly the music that suits our personality and mood. Music makes the fingers we can use to reach into our own hearts.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-greene/stop-defending-music-education-_b_7564550.html
Please read it and let me know your thoughts about music, and music education!
For the love and appreciation of music! Just because…..
Laura