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Please Support Music Education

Music education is more than just education. It's integration, it's culture. Those who can play music can change the world. Throughout American History music has been a force towards integration, equality and justice.

To have music education is to enrich.  To deny it is to impoverish. If

For these reasons and many others, I would like to encourage all music lovers to support music education at all levels, and of all kinds. Supporting public school music programs, classical music theory and history through music is to enrich us all.

Thank you,


Erik
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erik_squires OP
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Thank god my surgeon didn’t go to school. He woke up one day and started cutting a PB&J sandwich and said "Hey, I’m pretty good!"

The entire San Francisco orchestra is like that too. No education at all, in fact the conductor him/hserself is really just there to keep the whining down. Truth is they don’t need him.  Just a little advice from the salesperson at the music store and they were concert ready.  Yep, hear it all the time.  Every radio show I ever hear with great young musicians, they say this.  Their teachers suck and it's by pure grit they got to where they are.

Erik
inna
7,830 posts
 
Maxnewid, well said. 
By the way, Miles Davis quit that school after a year, I think. But he asked for his father's opinion before doing it, and though his father had doubts, there was no objection.
Yes, music and other kinds of 'organized sounds' are extremely important for development, communication and sense of belonging. There are serious articles on the subject.
erik_squires OP
16,558 posts
 
I'm not here to promote 1 single narrative about how music culture happens. Some do best in school, some learning elsewhere. I'm lucky to be able to listen to both.

Some, like Winton Marsalis, feel it is so important they devote some of their time to teach music as history, and music as culture to anyone who would listen, musician and lay person alike.  This goes far beyond teaching performance, he is a convincing advocate that music is never just about music, and education isn't just about jobs and product.

Best,

Erik
inna
7,830 posts
 
Czarivey, courage is a talent too, wouldn't you agree?
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ivan_nosnibor
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czarivey,

 Juilliard graduates, for example, have included: Miles Davis, Itzhak Perlman, Bernard Herrmann, Yo-Yo Ma and others.

czarivey said: "Once again it’s Talent + Courage and they were all waking up as musicians from day 1."

If that’s all it comes down to, then why did they even desire to go to music school?
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