CNN did a program recently about studying music and the part of the brain that functions at those times. A huge part of the brain is at work. Children read the music, interpret it and refine the music they are playing. In music we're also teaching and learning performance skills. A plumber has to perform every day, so does an engineer, even a reporter has to write the story.
Music students learn that early in life by performing what they have practiced.
Buzz and Julie Holmes moved to Idyllwild permanently in 1982 so that their children could grow up here. His father, Robert Holmes, taught music there and at the University of Southern California. My parents were probably the biggest influence in my life. After graduating from USC's School of Music in 1972 and taking another year to get his teaching credential, Mr. Holmes taught music in the Los Angeles school system. I kind of got side-tracked into school administration rather than teaching.