Composer, Educator, Conductor, Blue Jack Music, Making Music Work
This past week, I attended and participated in a prayer service at a Mosque.
At Imago Dei Middle School, I co-teach a 7th grade religion class with the Reverend Susan Anderson Smith. Each year we visit different sacred spaces – Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish – so students get first hand knowledge of what each is like.
We have Christian services at the school twice a day and a Eucharist every Wednesday, so it’s not like they aren’t exposed to Christianity as well.
These are not the ONLY ones, but they help guide what I do.
I use them as a measuring stick.
Did my actions today help or hinder the goal I set for myself 4 years ago?
In ancient Africa, there was no word for music or dance or art. Art was life. Life was art. Music was as necessary as water.
The idea of music as special event is a European phenomenon.
The notion of using music as noise filter, customer calmer, or mall /elevator diversion is 100% United Statesian.
Look deep into your past Luke (or Leia) Scalewalker.
Remember when you were young and music was never not fun?
Then came lessons and practice time and endless scales and the [cue Beethoven’s 5th … (ta ta tad dum) — classical radio announcer’s voice-over, dramatically]
