Can you remember what you felt like when you were three or four years old? You may not recall the details of what you did, but your picture of your childhood will likely contain some memory of youthful enthusiasm, innocence, or playfulness.
 

There was a time when nobody told us that playing was difficult, and we played music without feeling self-conscious about it. There were those moments when we marveled at the excitement, the love, and the sadness that live musicians could coax from their instruments. And there was a time when we first performed as members of a band, orchestra, or chorus, and were overwhelmed by the massiveness of the sound, and our wonder at being part of fifty or a hundred voices all building to the same musical goal.

We as parents must get involved to make these meaningful memories part of our children's lives. Join your local music support group, find out about your local arts council and attend your local school board meetings to make sure the fine arts do not get shorted when budgets are made for the year. Get involved, sit in on your child's music lesson and learn what you can do to help. It is our duty as parents to do all we can to make sure our children develop all of their God given talents. You will find in the contents of this web page research and facts of the benefits of music in education.. Music can be shared or can be very personal and moving. Enjoy it and preserve it to make sure it is there for our future generations.

Please take your time and explore all the pages and feel free to send me your comments.

Thank you and enjoy!

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MUSIC IS "ORGANIZED SOUND"
NOISE IS "UNORGANIZED SOUND"
EVERYTHING ELSE IS A BYPRODUCT.

Dale Boone - Music Instructor

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer

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"For a few moments music makes us larger than we really are, and the world more orderly than it really is... As our brains are thrown into overdrive, we feel our very existence expand and realize that we can be more than we normally are, and that the world is more than it seems. That is cause enough for ecstasy."

-- From Music, the Brain and Ecstasy by Robert Jourdain