Letter To The Editor

To whom this may concern,

When I read your article I found it very easy for me to connect to it. As a musician, I know exactly what it is like to have music in your life and to be so greatly affected by it. Music education has been viewed to be incompetent compared to the standard academic courses, which is not fair to our youth. Many people are, like you said, “musically illiterate,” which makes them naïve to many of the things that different cultures have to offer.

            Music education needs to stay away from the mundane; the monotonous “drills” that are supposed to help us feel and learn music. I also agree that music education in schools needs to be greatly improved. The material covered needs to be broadened so that there is a “universal” understanding of music. The methods of instruction also need to more finely tuned in order to thoroughly cover broadened material.