buzzcen@a... wrote:
>In a message dated 2/14/2003 2:37:49 PM Central Standard Time,
>DCLARK@r... writes:
>
>>+++Well, some of us are out there in the trenches teaching a whole new
>>generation of students to love classical music. We may never reach the
>>masses -- not everyone reads Gourmet Magazine either, but it's not dead by
>>a long shot!
>>
>
>You have to be tought to love it? hmm...
>
Randy et al,
Yes. You are taught to love it. Ususally from the earliest years of
your life you begin to form ideas of likes and dislikes from music your
parents listen to. It's also studies in elementary school where you are
exposed to a wide variety of music. You listen and form opinions. If a
child is open-minded he/she will really listen instead of closing out
form of music he/she doesn't usually listen to.
My vocal students, if they want to study with me need to put up with
some classical forms of music. Most of them eventually ask if they
could learn how to sing one classical song or another. I am not talking
Opera here, but light opera and operetta and art songs. An eight year
old I started teaching, who loved pop and older easy listening songs,
fell in love with "Art is Calling For Me" when she was ten and asked if
she was good enough to learn to sing it. At her Carnegie Hall Debut at
age 13 most of her songs were of classical form and now she has enrolled
in Opera studies in college.
She and my other girls did not start off liking classical music. They
learned to love it.
I, and others who believe in classical forms of music, are striving to
introduce children to beautiful classical music. Four of my girls, who
only want to sing classical forms of music, all listen to pop but they
don't want to sing it. That says something to me.
Dr Dean
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