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Music Enhances The Education Of Our Children By Helping Them To Make Connections And Broadening The Depth With Which They Think And Feel. If We Are To Hope For A Society Of Culturally Literate People, Music Must Be A Vital Part Of Our Children's Education.

I Realized Late In Life That My Twin Passions Are Music And People.

I Want To Investigate Different Cultures, To See How Their Identities And Values Affect Their Music. It's One Way I Can Get To Know Our World, At Least To A Certain Depth.

A Senegalese Poet Said 'in The End We Will Conserve Only What We Love. We Love Only What We Understand, And We Will Understand Only What We Are Taught.' We Must Learn About Other Cultures In Order To Understand, In Order To Love, And In Order To Preserve Our Common World Heritage.

I Think Of A Piece Of Music As Something That Comes Alive When It Is Being Performed, And I Feel That My Role In The Transmission Of Music Is To Be Its Best Advocate At That Moment.