Before the final song at last Monday's concert, Mrs. Ramsey informed the audience of mostly parents, siblings and grandparents how music incorporates all the basic subjects in school. Music is science. Music is mathematics. Music is a foreign language, history and physical education. And music is art.
Music is something that stays with people throughout their lives.
Long after geometry classes and football practices, moms and dads will play the piano at family holiday gatherings, join the church choir, strum the guitar beside the campfire or sing along to their favorite songs on the radio. Even I can do the latter. That's because music moves everyone. Absolutely, positively everyone. Pete Letheby is associate editor for The Independent.