Why Should You Study Music?
Bach
gave us God’s word.
Mozart
gave us God’s laughter.
Beethoven
gave us God’s fire.
God
gave us music that we might
pray
without words.
– quote from
outside
an old opera house
In 1993, music performance students scored 22 points higher than average on the verbal portion of the SAT., and 18 points higher in math. (National Commission on Music Education, Director, Vol. 1, No. 1-16, p. 5.)
Music
is something terribly special . . .
It
doesn’t have to pass through the censor
of the
brain before it can reach the heart . . . .
An
F-sharp doesn’t have to be considered
in the
mind; it is a direct hit, and, therefore,
all the
more powerful.
— Leonard Bernstein