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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!
If the author &
date of publication is know for an article it is printed with
the article.
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
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