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Music Educators Transmit Our Cultural Heritage

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“Music is a significant part of the cultural heritage. Music educators are the agents for the preservation, refinement, and transmission of that heritage to each succeeding generation of Americans.”

The Arts Are an Essential Part of Human Experience

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“The Arts are an essential part of human experience; they are not a frill. We recommend that all students study the arts to discover how human beings use nonverbal symbols and communicate not only with words but also through music, dance, and the visual arts.”

Good Music

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“If it sounds good, it is good.”-Louis Armstrong

Making Music Accessible

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“The boundaries already are blurred in my mind between what is classical and what is from the popular genres. That’s kind of the idea—to take this music and just make it available and accessible to anyone who wants to come into contact with it.”-Cellist Matt Haimovitz, protégé of Itzhak Perlman

Successful Music Programs Involve the Whole Community

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“Developing a healthy and positive working relationship with all members of the school community is vital to the success of the music program.”

What Makes a Strong Music Program

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“Strong music programs do not just happen. Strong music programs consist of well-planned objectives that are implemented confidently and monitored continuously to ensure success.”

The Art of Composing

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.”-John Cage

Jazz Expands Your Horizons

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“Jazz education is an integral part of the music curriculum in American public schools. It is the first purely American music form and is regarded as a fine art. Jazz has greatly influenced all subsequent musical genres…“The most important aspect of learning jazz is listening. Jazz is about feeling, and the only way to learn the music is to listen to the masters, put yourself into the music, and make the music your own.”

The Arts Make Life Worth Living

Added: Jun 22, 2010 - View

“The arts not only enhance every other aspect of the curriculum, they make life worth living. For many, many students, the arts are the only lifeline in a difficult school environment.”-Hannah L., Massachusetts

Former Students Continue to Tell Me How Music Has Impacted Their Lives

Added: Jun 22, 2010 - View

“I have taught music for 37 years and have been touched by how many students will make a point of emailing me to tell me how much their music education has impacted their adult lives.”-Haig S., Connecticut

Creative Skills Crucial in Today’s Global Marketplace

Added: Jun 22, 2010 - View

“Music education is such a vital part of every young child's education and we cannot compete in a global market without the lessons learned through creativity, and expression....i.e. music in the schools!”-Kirk H., Illinois

Music at the Heart of Human Emotion

Added: Jun 22, 2010 - View

“Music is the ONE thing in my life that means the most to me. It has been my best friend for many years and has been the one stabilizing force in my life at times. It has gotten me through so much and means so much to me. I want others to feel the impact that music has had on me. I want them to feel the joy I feel when I hear Wagner's Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral, the overwhelming worship of Handel's Messiah, the anguish in Mozart's Requiem, and the peace of Brahms's German Requiem. I want them to experience the delicateness of Bach and the devotion of sacred polyphony. Music has power that no man will ever understand. All children need to know what music is and what it can do for them. Music can change lives. It's changed mine.”-John P., Alabama

Music, Aesthetics, and Decision-Making

Added: Jun 22, 2010 - View

“Music is critical to our understanding of the subjective human experience. We make hundreds of decisions every day based on our emotional response to aesthetics. Children must be equipped to understand the nature of human experience in meaningful ways.”-Kevin S., Georgia

Music Has Geometrical Underpinnings

Added: Jun 22, 2010 - View

“Music is truly a universal language with profound geometrical underpinnings in terms of both melody and harmony.”-David B., Florida

Marching Band Promotes Physical Fitness

Added: Jun 22, 2010 - View

“We make much to do about physical education as necessary to maintain the health of our kids, however, study after study shows that students with music education excel academically. The discipline they learn with music is discipline they take with them through life. I would say that in my experience with music at my son's school, there are far fewer overweight musicians in the marching band than there are as a percentage outside the program.”-Kevin H., Florida

Music Opens up a Whole New World

Added: Jun 22, 2010 - View

“If it hadn't been for band as a kid I would have really hated school. The highlight of every day from 4th grade through 12th grade was seeing my band director, my friends, and most of all playing my clarinet…“I was extremely shy as a youngster, and playing clarinet opened up a whole new world to me. I now teach band, and I hope that I'm reaching those who were like me. Those kids who may be shy or awkward, but very creative and smart. They need a place to go everyday that accepts them. “Playing music is therapeutic. I've seen dyslexic students benefit immensely as well as ADD students. I feel sad for people who don't know much music and who can't benefit from the cathartic release great music can give them. Most people are musically deprived. That's a shame. They could be so much more developed emotionally and spiritually from the experiences I've had with music.”-Karen W., Arizona

Music Is History, Literature, Math, Art

Added: Jun 22, 2010 - View

“Music is history, literature, math, art, and more. Music also teaches students to work together as a group, how to set and accomplish goals, discipline, listening and verbal skills. All students should have music in their schools.”-Erin M., Arkansas

School Music Is a Safe Haven

Added: Jun 22, 2010 - View

“When I was in my advanced training in the US Army, I spent my free time at the library listening to any classical music recording I could get my hands on because I so missed playing in an orchestra as I did as a teenager in school. All that teenage upheaval that a child goes through was deflected through my viola, and left in the music room. I vowed that when I was done serving my country, I would serve in another capacity, and share my love of music with children, and pass that outlet on to another generation. “I used my GI Bill to obtain my music degree and have been teaching orchestra for 25 years. I have a happy, healthy life. I watched my siblings succumb to alcohol problems and health problems and die at early ages because they never had that outlet. For some of us, public school is that safe haven, that place to be happy and secure and expressive that isn't always possible at home. “I hope that the nation's children can continue to have that safe haven of the orchestra and chorus that I did. I'm educated, and healthy and live to serve my community, and I know that's because I learned that in music class giving performances and doing community service through the arts. I hope our future generations get that same opportunity.”Ellen P., New York

Values of Music

Added: Jun 22, 2010 - View

“Do more than belong: participate.Do more than care: help.Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind.Do more than forgive: forget.Do more than dream: work.”-William Arthur Ward

School Music Was the Foundation for My Music Career

Added: Jun 22, 2010 - View

“Without public school orchestra I would not have been able to learn to play the violin. I am now a symphonic player, a free-lance musician and a public school orchestra teacher.”-Anonymous, Oklahoma