I think all of us who are past the age of 30 and still playing, can attest to the truth of the following sentence:<\/p>\n
The attitudes which are established in the music room will have untold consequences in the formation of habits and attitudes in all other phases of the students’ lives.<\/p>\n
William D. Revelli<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Source: \u00a0 Reflections on a Career in Music Education\u00a0By William D. Revelli. In the\u00a0\u00a0Music Educators Journal,\u00a0November \u2013 December, 1963, p. 76<\/h6>\n
At the time, Revelli was a Professor of Wind Instruments and Conductor of Bands in the School of Music, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n
In today’s age of education cut-backs, programs like the arts tend to be the most vulnerable. Ironically, it is exactly through the arts that some of the most disenfranchised youth can find a voice, and sense of self.<\/p>\n
This voice and sense of self can be exactly that, which allows them to step out of their at risk<\/em> status. If anything, we should be funding the arts more, not less, in these times of economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n