The other day a bonsai sakura plant showed up in the lobby of the building where I live. It brought back memories of my time in public elementary school music class singing the Japanese ode to the sakura tree. I asked a young woman who works for the property management company if she had music classes in her elementary school experience. It did
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"ugh..."
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Because we're from the British tradition, where if you don't learn how to make money from the thing, its pointless. So music is considered utterly frivolous in our education system . Which is completely antithetical to how Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Austria, and other European countries see music as part of their heritage. I keep bringing up the El Sistema program as a great template of achieving social change via music education. The program is now active in several cities in the United States, like in east LA, Birmingham Alabama, Philadelphia, Chicago, Brooklyn, Boston, Virginia Beach, Las Vegas.
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The McGuire article is interesting. The songs in the list of 42 that I think children could learn most from wound up in table 6.
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One in Stockton (http://www.harmonystockton.org/)
One in San Francisco (http://www.musicteamsf.org/)
And another in San Rafael (http://www.enrichinglivesthroughmusic.org/www.enrichinglivesthroughmusic.org/HOME.html)
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I now know how to say "vegetable", "sisters", "tomato", and to some degree "asapagus" in Japanese.
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