Well, I hear your point, and can't rebut it, except to aver that I
have a strong belief that a solid basic education in the arts, esp.
music and moving to music does all the things I mentioned. Obviously,
there are plenty of adverse forces in the world which create the sort
of chaos you mention, and many reasons why a child exposed to the
above mentioned education may evolve into a miscreant or flat out
evil soul. I would simply stand by the premise that the training I
mentioned does not inherently produce the bad guys in our society,
and in fact, does more good than harm, so, IMHO, should not be
discouraged. Let's not throw out a positive because negatives exist.
Who knows, if Jesus and Ghandi, e.g., had had Orff and Kodaly
training, they might have had even more modes of connecting with
people and it might have made their work easier.
Dean
On May 4, 2007, at 11:33 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Amen, and nothing more needs to be averred about the importance of
training, beginning in the very early years, in solfege, movement,
and playing of instruments as we find in Kodaly and Orff. That's
the sort of background which not only produces exceptional
musicianship on a broad level, but just plain well-rounded human
beings. Trust me, the world would be a far better place, if
only ............
Excuse me, but until fairly recently, Romania and other eastern
European countries where the Kodaly and Orff methods originated and
may be widely taught did not exactly serve as great role models for
well-rounded human beings.
I'm sure that the countries' leaders who abused civil rights and
their countries' economies stood next to all the other 10 year olds
and learned the same musical stuff.
And it's important as well to remember that there are very well-
rounded human beings who have served the interests of world peace
and human kindness who never heard of Kodaly and Orff methods.
Ghandi, the Dalai Lama, Jesus, Baha'ulla, are just a few such
examples.
The two do not necessarily go hand-in-hand (Kodaly/Orff training
and well-rounded human beings who make the world a better place).
And while the Romanian student in the example may have been able to
play in odd meters and been amazed at the other students'
difficulties at first, before being taught, the example doesn't
also explain that while Romanian 10-year olds my be able to handle
such rhythms easily, before they've learned them as folk dances I'm
sure they would have been bewildered also.
The example does nothing more than show us that once someone is
taught a complex rhythm or meter it becomes easy.
But then we all knew that. :-)
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David H. Bailey
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Of all hoaxes, the one which is my most vexing bête noire on a
quotidian basis, is the cereal box top which informs simply,
"Lift Tab to Open." Then, "To Close, Insert Tab Here ." Yeah,
right! In attempting to accomplish the first direction, not only
the tab but also the slit intended to accept the aforementioned
protuberance have both been irreparably disfigured and rendered
dysfunctional. This debacle is then amplified by the misbehavior
of the recalcitrant inner bag, which can not be unsealed sans
mangling it, and hence, will not disperse its contents without
exiting the box itself. All I wanted was a bowl of cereal.
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