Thank you for coming and

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Thank you for coming and Thank you for
supporting your childs Music Education.
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Music is designated a core academic subject in
the 'No Child Left Behind Act.' No Child Left
Behind Act of 2002, Title IX, Part A, Sec. 9101
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Students of the arts learn to think creatively
and to solve problems by imagining various
solutions, rejecting outdated rules and
assumptions. Questions about the arts do not
have only one right answer.
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If only the whole world could feel the power of
harmony. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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A study of the arts provides children with an
internal glimpse of other cultures and teaches
them to be empathetic towards the people of
these cultures. This development of compassion
and empathy, as opposed to development of greed
and a "me first" attitude, provides a bridge
across cultural chasms that leads to respect of
other races at an early age.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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Through music study, students learn the value of
sustained effort to achieve excellence and the
concrete rewards of hard work.
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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be
a musician. I often think in music. I live my
daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of
music. ... I get most joy in life out of
music. Albert Einstein
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers
of the dreams. Arthur O'Shanessey
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Music causes us to think eloquently. Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Music is what feelings sound like. anonymous
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Music begins where words are powerless to
express.  Music is made for the inexpressible.
I want music to seem to rise from the shadows
and indeed sometimes to return to them. 
Claude Debussy
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Song is, after all, nothing more or less than
the soundtrack for the human experience.
Thomas Hampson and Carla Maria Verdino Süllwold

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the
soul for the education of its virtue. Plato
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Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a
thing of momentary thrills.... It's a condition
of eternity.Gustav Holst
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the
space between the notes and curl my back to
loneliness. Maya Angelou
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Who is there that, in logical words, can
express the effect music has on us? A kind
of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which
leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets
us for moments gaze into that.
Thomas Carlyle
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Without music, life is a journey through a
desert. Pat Conroy, author
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Art demands of us that we shall not stand
still. Ludwig van Beethoven
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He who sings scares away
his woes.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the
universe, wings to the mind, flight to the
imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to
everything. Plato
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If a child hears fine music from the day of his
birth, and learns to play it himself, he develops
sensitivity, discipline, and endurance. He gets a
beautiful heart. Shinichi Suzuki
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You can't cheat in mathematics, or poetry or
music, because they're based on truth.
John Steinbeck
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Music training is a more potent instrument than
any other because rhythm and harmony find their
way into the secret places of the soul. Plato
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and
philosophy.... Ludwig van
Beethoven
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Music the fiercest grief can charm,And Fate's
severest rage disarmMusic can soften pain to
ease,And make despair and madness please.
Alexander Pope
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What we play is life. Louis Armstrong
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