This promises to be a banner year for the choral department. The best and the brightest make attainable goals for their everyday practice. The best and the brightest make mistakes but know how to solve them. The best and the brightest choral students warm-up their voices slowly and take care of them daily. Music is mathematical because it is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time in space into fractions.
Music is a foreign language in that terms are in Italian, German or French.
Music is history and reflects the environment and times of its creation. Music is physical education and requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips and facial muscles in addition to control of the back, stomach and chest muscles. Music is all of these things but most of all music is art and allows a human being to take dry notes off the page and transform them into emotions. You ask why I teach music. Because of the human component of middle school students, who make everyday a pure enjoyment.