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Orchestra is an Integral part of District 203’s belief in “Excellence in Education”
”because music is a fundamental way children use to express themselves, ...
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“Orchestra is a community whose
essence is in collaboration. It
requires teamwork, rigor and
disciplines.” - 60 Minutes, 11/19/00
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“When you are training good
musicians, you are training good
citizens.” - Dr. Jose Antonio Abreu,
who started the first Venezuelan Youth
Orchestra in 1975.
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"It occurred to me by intuition, and
music was the driving force behind
that intuition. My discovery of
Theory of Relativity was the result of
musical perception.”….. Albert Einstein
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The 3- to 5-year olds who received six
months of piano (or string) lessons
improved significantly in spatial-temporal
reasoning, … (the effect is)
more pronounced in older kids.
Research of Univ. Calif.-Riverside
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Participation in instrumental music
correlates with significantly higher
SAT scores... College Board Data
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Orchestra is a group/team-learning experience which students cannot make up
once they complete high school. Conversely, it is a learning experience that once
accomplished, can be applied, cultivated, and shared for a lifetime.
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106 th Congress, H. Con. Resolution 266, June 14, 2000; www.amc-music.
org/pubpol.html; Resolved by the House of Representatives (the
Senate concurring) that it is the sense of the Congress that -
1) Music education enhances intellectual development and enriches the academic
environment for children of all ages; and
2) Music educators greatly contribute to the artistic, intellectual and social development
of American children and play a key role in helping children to succeed in school.
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Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and "Classics in the Classroom":
"Even as music education programs have been disappearing from early elementary school
curricula, their value has become increasingly obvious. Not only do such programs
provide cultural, aesthetic and technical knowledge of the music itself, but they are also
thought to contribute importantly to development by improving intellectual, motor, and
social abilities and skills outside the realm of music, and by contributing to students'
success in their "regular" courses of study. Recent research indicates that musical
training, even just listening to music, stimulates improvement in the "spatial reasoning
skills" crucial to such functions as complex mathematics and science. Other recent
studies indicate that very basic musical training, involving listening and recognizing
musical ideas, enhances children's reading abilities.
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“The idea that sports helps build character through hard work, discipline and teamwork, is
one of the cultural basics for most Americans. The idea that the same thing can be
achieved from playing classical music in an orchestra." “Orchestra is a community whose
essence is in collaboration. It requires teamwork, rigor and disciplines, all of these elements,
besides influencing the music, influence a person’s development.” “Music is a way for
children to express themselves, a fundamental way to communicate and therefore it has an
immense social value.” “I never thought they would trust me with an instrument... The music
has taught me how to treat people without violence.“…Lennar, 17 years old. The Orchestra
- CBS 60 Minutes, 11/19/00. Ed Bradley reports and Harry Radliffe is the producer.
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