Judy Woodruff: A symphony requires all musicians playing their parts in harmony. COVID, of course, makes that delicate choreography all the more challenging. Jeffrey Brown talks to maestro Michael Tilson Thomas about that, and passing the baton to a younger generation. It’s part of our arts and culture series, “Canvas.“
December 16, 20203:56 PM ETHeard on All Things Considered
“The local music economy doesn’t start when people graduate high school. The local music economy starts when these children begin their music education journeys,”
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In 13 years of playing flute, Gabriella Alvarez never imagined playing with a clear plastic trash bag around her instrument. Kevin Vigil never foresaw his fellow tuba players wrapping pantyhose around their instrument bells.
And neither expected to watch their marching band at New Mexico State University play through cloth face masks, separated by six-foot loops of water pipe, with bags filled with hand sanitizer and disinfectant strapped around their waists.
But this is band practice in a pandemic.
By JIM SLIWA
Read a AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION press release here referencing the study “A Population-Level Analysis of Associations Between School Music Participation and Academic Achievement,” by Martin Guhn, PhD, Scott D. Emerson, MSc, and Peter Gouzouasis, PhD, The University of British Columbia. The full study appears in the Journal of Educational Psychology and was published online June 20, 2019.
By TOM BARNES
If your parents ever submitted you to regular music lessons as a kid, you probably got in a fight with them once or twice about it. Maybe you didn’t want to go; maybe you didn’t like practicing. But we have some bad news: They were right. It turns out that all those endless major scale exercises and repetitions of “Chopsticks” had some incredible effects on our minds.
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