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Music Will Live Forever

by on Nov. 24, 2011, under Uncategorized

Hello!  This is Music: The Heart and Soul, a brand new blog! 

First off, I would like to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving.  And that got me thinking, what are you thankful for?  In this rough economy and through all the job cuts, it gets harder and harder to find the silver lining each day.  But even in the darkest times, these times prove just how much we can rise above it all and find the light.  How are you finding the light?  One thing is for sure, music will always be there.

Music is in each and everyone of us.  Whether it’s just a song on an iPod or a symphony in a concert hall, music all around us.  But it is disappearing in these times, less money is being funded to schools around the nation for the arts programs.  This is wrong.  This is a nightmare.  Imagine, a world without the gift of music!  The arts programs are being destroyed.   Imagine going through elementary, middle and high school without a music class…no band, no choir, and no orchestra.  No theater, no drama clubs, no glee, and forget jazz band.  According to an article “Starving America’s Public Schools” it was stated that

“In York, Pa., art, music and physical education was eliminated in elementary schools.  In Medina, Ohio, students returned to find courses in French, German, art, music and advanced placement science and math were eliminated” from Nation of Change.org ( http://www.nationofchange.org/starving-americas-public-schools-1318561153)

This blog was created to spread the word about the importance of music education/the arts programs, the positive effects of having music in our daily lives, and the sheer stellar brilliance of the creation of music.  No matter how much money is being taken away from the arts, the impact of music that has already affected others will still be there.  Whether it’s a kid in middle school band, a member of  a college marching band, a young adult in drum corps, or a band director…music will live forever.

And so I will close with this final statement, Gene Wilder could not have said it better than in the film Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory:

“We are the music makers… and we are the dreamers of dreams” -Willie Wonka 

If we want to fight for the arts, fight for music, and fight for the gifts that music has to offer, we must stand up for it.  This blog is just the start. 

I am thankful for music and all of the opportunities that it has given me…but that’s a post for another day :)

Thank you!  Have a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving.

~*Music: The Heart and Soul*~

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    • music-heart-and-soul

      Rai, it is sad to see that schools are coming down harsh on the arts. And what I have heard as a proven fact is that music programs increase test scores! thanks for your comment! More to come with Music: The Heart and Soul

  • Mike Brewer

    Welcome! We are now approaching a gestalt here at TC.com with the arts. This blog is the perfect anecdote for our discordant times.  Possibly music can mediate between the competing egos that are mostly the voice of one signifying nothing. Music is about US.
    “All musical people seem to be happy, it is to them the engrossing pursuit, almost the only innocent and unpunished passion.” Sydney Smith
    Many a veteran of war knows they are on the path to healing when they mend the spirit and the soul with the child of prayer- music. MB
    And why is it that musicians seem to have a wisdom that comes with the craft? Is the brain placed in balance when chords are strung?
    “O Music, sphere descended maid. Friend of pleasure wisdom’s aid.”  William Collins
    Play on!  Mike/ Veterans Veritas

    • music-heart-and-soul

      Mike, yes! I understand exactly what you mean. I appreciate your comment! And awesome quotes by the way! More to come with Music: The Heart and Soul!

  • Mike Brewer

    Good of Mark Evans to put you on the banner page and leave it there for a bit.
    I am sure you have noticed that “Sports,” dominates the world of news! My son quipped, over the Thanksgiving holiday that, “Iran could bomb us, and readers would check first to see how the Wildcats are doing.” Tsk!

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