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Emerging trends and issues in the music profession and their impact on the individual music teacher.(Visions)

American Music Teacher

| April 01, 2004 | Lowry, Douglas | COPYRIGHT 2004 Music Teachers National Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Our collective angst about emerging trends in the music profession is undoubtedly rooted in our concern for the future of the music we know and love. We hear reports of its demise, fueled, perhaps, by what we are told are dwindling audiences, sales of CDs and traumas brought on by what we sense are emerging trends in our culture. Yet, I, for one, do not view emerging trends as threats. I, like many, continue to assert my faith in the future of great music, probably for the simple reason that it has a deep and abiding meaning for too many people committed to its sustenance for it to simply disappear. Speculation on my part, perhaps, but the composition, performance and ...

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