Why Music Education Is More Than Learning How to Play | EdSurge Podcast - EdSurge

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If you were fortunate enough to have music education in school, what were those classes like? by Tony Wan, managing editor at EdSurge.

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Did you pick up an instrument—say, a recorder or violin, and learn how to play the scale and simple melodies? Did you listen to the classics and learn about the history of music?

Musicians and music educators alike say that learning music is so much more than just playing an instrument, or learning about your favorite artists. It’s a window into other disciplines—and life skills—and teaches you how to learn and get along.

That’s what Lorrie Murray, executive director of the Bay Area Music Project, told EdSurge earlier this fall. And it’s a sentiment echoed by a rock legend, Steven van Zandt, who most people have heard (as a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band) or watched (as the mobster Silvio Dante in “The Sopranos”).

Murray and van Zandt are our guests on this week’s EdSurge podcast, and they share their different approaches to music education...

“There’s no other place like an orchestra where people from varying backgrounds and coming from different ideas have to come in and be one together,” she says. “We have a piece of music that we all need to perform. Percussion, winds, strings all have their parts, and they all have to be in agreement.”
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