Support the ARTS!
Why support the arts, and music in particular?
In an article titled "We need music to survive", Karl Paulnack, Dean of the School of Music at Ithaca College, answers this question masterfully. Here is an excerpt:
I now understand that music is not part of "arts and entertainment." It's not a luxury, something we fund from budget leftovers. Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of things, a way to express feelings when we have no words, a way to understand things with our hearts when we cannot grasp them with our minds. Music is the language we choose when we are speechless.
Published in the Christian Science Monitor, June 4, 2009
I now understand that music is not part of "arts and entertainment." It's not a luxury, something we fund from budget leftovers. Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of things, a way to express feelings when we have no words, a way to understand things with our hearts when we cannot grasp them with our minds. Music is the language we choose when we are speechless.
Published in the Christian Science Monitor, June 4, 2009