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Associations
National Guild for Community Music Schools of the Arts - www.nationalguild.org
Virginia Commission for the Arts - www.arts.va.gov
The Suzuki Association of the Americas - www.suzukiassociation.org
National Music Certificate Program - www.nationalmusiccertificate.org
American String Teacher's Association - www.astaweb.com
Music Together - www.musictogether.com
Just for Kids
www.dsokids.com - Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids site—have fun exploring the music room. Be sure to roll over the
keyboard! Just about everything you see is an activity.
www.bsokids.com - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Kids interactive website, including games, coloring pages, and silly
sounds!
www.nyphilkids.org - New York Philharmonic Kidzone, featuring lots of fun activities for kids to explore!
www.sfskids.org - Website of the San Francisco Symphony Kids, with lots of cool activities, including a music lab!
www.playmusic.org - An interactive website with all kinds of ways to explore the instruments in a symphony orchestra. The
site contains some links to other childhood music sites.
Schools and Local Organizations
The McGhee Foundation at Farmer's Delight Plantation, Middleburg, VA - www.farmersdelight.org
Piedmont Child Care Center, Upperville, VA - www.piedmontchildcare.org
Faculty Links
Sylvia McClain (harp) performs with the Loudoun Symphony Orchestra as well as special events.
Find out more at www.huntcountryharpist.com.
Nate Panning (percussion) and Ed St. John (woodwinds) perform in The Intrepid Jazz Project.
See what they're up to at www.intrepidjazz.com and www.natepanning.com.
National Guild for Community Music Schools of the Arts - www.nationalguild.org
Virginia Commission for the Arts - www.arts.va.gov
The Suzuki Association of the Americas - www.suzukiassociation.org
National Music Certificate Program - www.nationalmusiccertificate.org
American String Teacher's Association - www.astaweb.com
Music Together - www.musictogether.com
Just for Kids
www.dsokids.com - Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids site—have fun exploring the music room. Be sure to roll over the
keyboard! Just about everything you see is an activity.
www.bsokids.com - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Kids interactive website, including games, coloring pages, and silly
sounds!
www.nyphilkids.org - New York Philharmonic Kidzone, featuring lots of fun activities for kids to explore!
www.sfskids.org - Website of the San Francisco Symphony Kids, with lots of cool activities, including a music lab!
www.playmusic.org - An interactive website with all kinds of ways to explore the instruments in a symphony orchestra. The
site contains some links to other childhood music sites.
Schools and Local Organizations
The McGhee Foundation at Farmer's Delight Plantation, Middleburg, VA - www.farmersdelight.org
Piedmont Child Care Center, Upperville, VA - www.piedmontchildcare.org
Faculty Links
Sylvia McClain (harp) performs with the Loudoun Symphony Orchestra as well as special events.
Find out more at www.huntcountryharpist.com.
Nate Panning (percussion) and Ed St. John (woodwinds) perform in The Intrepid Jazz Project.
See what they're up to at www.intrepidjazz.com and www.natepanning.com.
| The Community Music School of the Piedmont P.O. Box 442, 9110 John Mosby Hwy. Upperville, VA 20185 (540) 592-3040 piedmontmusic@aol.com |
Why Music?
"Music expresses things we can't say... Music is about sharing. Playing together and for others is a shared experience. It can
set you off - make us angry, sad or happy. But, music is for me, too. Often, I sit and play for myself."
M.L., CMSP guitar student, age 10
"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"I love the feeling of notes flowing from my fingers and into the air around me. My friends and I share the pieces we have
recently learned and we love to add on portions of our songs to others. Music after a while becomes a part of you and there
is just always something going on in your head that is playing a rhythm or a tune."
M.B., CMSP drum/piano student, age 13
"Many studies have shown that an early musical education can help with math. This has proved true with me because I'm in
an eleventh grade Algebra 2 class and I believe I owe it all to the many hours of memorizing my music for concerts."
M.P., CMSP harp student & violinist, age 14
"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without."
Confucius
"Music will stay with you throughout your life."
M.C., CMSP viola student, age 15
"If someone asked me to choose between cello or piano I would say both of them."
W.C., CMSP piano/cello student, age 13
"Looking out into the audience and seeing the smiles that music brings to their faces tells me how important music is to
everyone....playing the correct notes are very important, but you must put part of your soul in your music to make it special."
M.P., CMSP harp student, age 14
"...I have come to understand that music is not part of "arts and entertainment" as the newspaper section would have us
believe. It's not a luxury, a lavish thing that we fund from leftovers of our budgets, not a plaything or an amusement or a
pastime. Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives, one of the ways in
which we express feelings when we have no words, a way for us to understand things with our hearts when we can't with
our minds."
"Music expresses things we can't say... Music is about sharing. Playing together and for others is a shared experience. It can
set you off - make us angry, sad or happy. But, music is for me, too. Often, I sit and play for myself."
M.L., CMSP guitar student, age 10
"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"I love the feeling of notes flowing from my fingers and into the air around me. My friends and I share the pieces we have
recently learned and we love to add on portions of our songs to others. Music after a while becomes a part of you and there
is just always something going on in your head that is playing a rhythm or a tune."
M.B., CMSP drum/piano student, age 13
"Many studies have shown that an early musical education can help with math. This has proved true with me because I'm in
an eleventh grade Algebra 2 class and I believe I owe it all to the many hours of memorizing my music for concerts."
M.P., CMSP harp student & violinist, age 14
"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without."
Confucius
"Music will stay with you throughout your life."
M.C., CMSP viola student, age 15
"If someone asked me to choose between cello or piano I would say both of them."
W.C., CMSP piano/cello student, age 13
"Looking out into the audience and seeing the smiles that music brings to their faces tells me how important music is to
everyone....playing the correct notes are very important, but you must put part of your soul in your music to make it special."
M.P., CMSP harp student, age 14
"...I have come to understand that music is not part of "arts and entertainment" as the newspaper section would have us
believe. It's not a luxury, a lavish thing that we fund from leftovers of our budgets, not a plaything or an amusement or a
pastime. Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives, one of the ways in
which we express feelings when we have no words, a way for us to understand things with our hearts when we can't with
our minds."
- Dr. Karl Paulnack, Director of the Music Division at Boston Conservatory, from a welcome address given to parents of
incoming students at The Boston Conservatory on September 1, 2004. Click here to read the entire address.
