1. Thank you for coming and Thank you for supporting your child’s Music Education.

2. 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 (11)

3. Students of the arts learn to think creatively and to solve problems by imagining various solutions, rejecting outdated rules and assumptions.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.

4. “If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.” ~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart~

5. 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.

6. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ~Albert Einstein ~

7. Through music study, students learn the value of sustained effort to achieve excellence and the concrete rewards of hard work.

8. “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~

9. “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams.” ~Arthur O'Shanessey~

10. “ Music causes us to think eloquently.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

11. “ Music is what feelings sound like.” ~anonymous~

12. “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~

13. “Song is, after all, nothing more or less than the soundtrack for the human experience.” ~Thomas Hampson and Carla Maria Verdino Süllwold ~

14. “Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” ~Plato~

15. “Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills.... It's a condition of eternity.” ~Gustav Holst ~

16. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ~Maya Angelou~

17. “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~

18. “Without music, life is a journey through a desert.” ~Pat Conroy, author~

19. “Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.” ~Ludwig van Beethoven~

20. “He who sings scares away his woes.” ~Miguel de Cervantes ~

21. “ 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~

22. “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~

23. “You can't cheat in mathematics, or poetry or music, because they're based on truth.” ~John Steinbeck ~

24. “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~

25. “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy....” ~Ludwig van Beethoven~

26. “Music the fiercest grief can charm, And Fate's severest rage disarm: Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please.” ~Alexander Pope~

27. “What we play is life.” ~Louis Armstrong~ PowerPoint by Meredith Inserra