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Working for a more musical tomorrow.(Essential Skills for Promoting a Lifelong Love of Music and Music Making: PART 4 OF 4)

American Music Teacher

| August 01, 2005 | Berenson, Gail; Smith, Scott McBride | COPYRIGHT 2005 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

Between the two of us, we went to a lot of graduation ceremonies last spring. Students, children of friends, a teenage nephew ... even a 5-year old godson put on cap and gown to progress from pre-school to kindergarten. And, we heard a lot of quotations about the future. Not so many from the kindergarteners, actually--they were too busy rushing the cookie table to offer much in the way of philosophy and vision.

Quotes and more quotes. "The future is yours for the taking" was a favorite. Proust, T.S. Eliot, Ambrose Bierce, friends and relatives of the speakers--they all had a lot of ideas about the world to come, from what we heard. Even the spirit of Doris Day was ...

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