we are marquis la la t v the first filipino american t v talk show in new york metro area get to know us as we talk to the community leaders innovators advocates and emerging artists who affect filipino american li they say the only way you get to the renowned concert venue carnegie hall in new york city is three things practice practice practice and for me at third grade i absolutely hated practicing my violin for orchestra so much so that i actually got caught forging my mom's signature by my orchestra teacher on my practice book yet i still continued to play throughout high school and it helped me form bonds with my classmates and allowed me the opportunity to eventually play at disney world it was a life changing experience that i hope all children are able to have yet it is not unheard of for more and more schools to cut music and art programs i wish ocampo and i'm joined with my co host jenny here and christina pests or to learn more about the importance of cultivating music in our lives and how one music nonprofit is celebrating their fiftieth anniversary at carnegie hall the children's orchestra society is comprised of eight to thirteen percent filipino children and is currently led by executive director dr hugh chain law and artistic director and principal conductor mr michael dodd of dr maya was born in paris to chinese parents and gave her first public performance at age seven and played piano for over a decade with her younger brother internationally  ma she then went on security degrees from radcliffe and harvard medical school and now works with children with development disorders in the bronx teaches violin and children and chamber music with the children's orchestra society and lectures internationally on music and healing mr michael dodd up was born in the philippines and studied philosophy at the university of the philippines he has since then one numerous awards including the philippine presidential award in the philippines in the philippines moloch and young palace in recognition of his remarkable achievements as a virtual so musician composer music teacher a proponent of philippine traditional music and for promoting philippine culture and causes through his work fun fact they have been married for thirty six years and have two children daniel and laura who are accomplished musicians along with their two grandchildren so my first question to you dr ma is why do you think music is so important to our children's lives music is a wonderful way to express a child's soul without w very very very traditional very basic no gimmicks what about children who absolutely know nothing about music but the parents want them to put them in a music school like yours well first of all the advice is the pre faculty that has to be paid a salary and the money comes and goes in batches sometimes we are living on the money and so we are working very hard to make sure that we compared to the cities some of the pre college programs that we don't have a building we are we are house in the long island high school for the arts and sciences and so we do pay rent but it's not the same as owning and building and having all the liabilities that go with it so the tuition pay for about maybe a quarter or third of our yearly expenses and then we do fund raising and we get grants so and then one third of it is a feel fully blossomed because i believe that we are a child the only way that you can grow without boundaries without without you know that has a safety net is to allow them to make mistakes and has said that the seven different kinds of intelligence so so everybody's talented in something and not only see equally talented at everything so we try to enhance the talent as well as cultivate the part that ha grown yet so that we grow for you know complete child dr my i'm curious about your you growing up honor your father with an equally talented brother yes so tell us about what it was chinese and learn harmony and counterpoint and all these things and you know when i was about eight my father told me he was you know the russians he worked very hard they practiced ten hours a day and i went oh  tell them to practice twice as long as their lesson time which doesn't always happen but at least as well and we also try to teach them to practice efficiently because all of them are have a lot a lot of homework and they have their social media and they have their friends and so we say when you practice don't start from the beginning to the end find the hard parts pick those parts up and practice those parts several times over because otherwise that's a weak point of that we can link so so if you have a weak link the chain is going to break so you have to conquer those we tell them to make friends with their hard parts i mean sometimes the children like to tell stories that were shelved did with the teacher one kid came and played a scale that was completely unrecognizable and i looked at her and i said well can you tell me how many times you practice that scale last week she said oh hundreds of times and i said man what an ungrateful scale  counterproductive i think another thing that's important with us as we tell the children to tell stories because one kid came to audition and played a piece mechanically so we asked what were you thinking of when you played that there's too much pressure on them you know because some some some some people are brought up that you must be perfect so you need to do good and the demise of the perfect price of one of the professors perfection and happy and we always say that practice makes perfect but i i heard from a basketball player he said like no practice makes per minute cultural all preferences like i've heard the observation that chinese families get their kids to study the violin and filipino families the guitar or the piano is that is that correct and then you see that in your in your actually i think it the music making by using art or your students mostly asian children what we do we have an open door policy we don't have quot so people come to us mostly by word of mouth mostly if somebody came to a concert and they like what they hear they want to be part of the orchestra or somebody tells them about it so whoever comes through the doors and we usually you feel that we can instill the language of music to our children's lives one way one way to sing songs with some yeah yeah or maybe just yeah i live a beat because that's when you money team jack christina and of course to all of our viewers for your continued support for you next time