Saturday, October 12, 2013
Hope through Music
I came across this video (link below) on Facebook and it was truly inspiring (and humbling). I am soooo not musical and so I find myself intimidated by this component of the Fine Arts curriculum. Yet, I have had many opportunities (and still do) to learn an instrument. If I decided I wanted to learn, I could have a shiny new instrument at my finger tips by this afternoon. I have taken this luxury for granted. Sadly, there are children in the world who desperately want to make music...and cannot because of the socioeconomic conditions that they live in. The children in this video clip not only love to make music, they don't let the barriers in their life prevent them from doing so. And the music they create brings love, joy, hope, and courage in to their lives. What I| can learn from this is how the arts can be a means for fostering beauty in a world that is often ugly for children. The children in our own classrooms may come from adversity--we need to give them opportunities to create beauty.
Please connect to the link below for a truly inspiring video!
Hope through Music
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Wow, I couldn't believe the sound that came out of that cello. When I was in elementary school our district cut the music program. Mrs Johnson, my friends mother, came in to teach our grade 4 class how to play the ukulele, and it was really fun. I still have a spot in my heart for that instrument and would like to learn to play it some day.
ReplyDeleteLike you said Luara, giving students opportunities to create beauty is important, and it hurts those of low socioeconomic status so much more when arts programs get cut.
This video is amazing. I've seen it posted a few times but never took the opportunity to watch it, now I am glad I did. I am like you, the music portion of the arts scares me. It is so humbling to see that something that scares me and I take for granted, someone else's soul is crying out for.
ReplyDeleteI'm in the same boat as Jana-Rae, I've seen the video floating around but hadn't watched it yet. So amazing!!
ReplyDeleteWow I love this.
ReplyDeleteThis is a most inspiring story - thanks for sharing it. I love the way Jana-Rae described how a soul could be crying out to make music! I think the arts have often been a benefit of being privileged in society, which may be why I so enjoy folk arts and crafts and folk music - they come from people who have little but the urge to create! If a truly inclusive society allows all to share in the benefits of that society, one of our jobs as inclusive teachers is to make these benefits more accessible than they have been. Sometimes that is hard, when they have not been so accessible to us. And one more thing about your video - I think there is a musical genius behind it all who is responsible for making the instruments. How wonderful that he has chosen to share his talents this way!
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