These standards, when applied to a student's own work, demand a new level of excellence and require students to stretch their inner resources. It is only by much hard work that a successful performance is possible. Through music study, students learn the value of sustained effort to achieve excellence and the concrete rewards of hard work. Music study enhances teamwork skills and discipline. In order for an orchestra to sound good, all players must work together harmoniously towards a single goal, the performance, and must commit to learning music, attending rehearsals, and practicing.
Music provides children with a means of self-expression.
Now that there is relative security in the basics of existence, the challenge is to make life meaningful and to reach for a higher stage of development. Everyone needs to be in touch at some time in his life with his core, with what he is and what he feels. Music study develops skills that are necessary in the workplace. Employers are also looking for multi-dimensional workers with the sort of flexible and supple intellects that music education helps to create, as described above. Music performance teaches young people to conquer fear and to take risks.