For this week's Music Truth, we'd like to give a shout out to all of the amazing band directors we have the pleasure of knowing!
Teens described their music teachers as encouraging, motivating and acting as both role models and friends that can be trusted for listening and giving advice.
- Presentation to U.S. Congress, 2007.
We are honored to be a part of the growing band program in Van Dyke Public Schools. Thank you to the Board of Education and Tom Torrento for the special recognition. Our team will be sure to hang this plaque perfectly!!!
Meet Denise! Denise plays the bass clarinet and the tenor saxophone! She began playing the clarinet in fifth grade and soon started on the bass clarinet. When she got to high school at Fitzgerald, she also began playing the tenor saxophone. She's involved in the Oakland, Wayne, and MSBOA Honors Bands. Denise loves how music allows you to express yourself, and we agree!
Perseverance is developed and strengthened through music education.
Journal of Research in Music Education
A kid with a music degree isn't limited to a performance or teaching career. Musicians are everywhere. We are project managers, marketers, finance folks, IT people and engineers. In my twenty-some years as a corporate HR person, I was always impressed by the way musical people excelled at logic and non-linear thinking, both.
- Liz Ryan, Let the kids study music, already!, Forbes 2014