Leonard Slatkin, the new director of the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra,
believes music is missing in today's classrooms, as he told the
National Press Club.
The new director has won five Grammy awards, and conducted the New York
Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
among others. So, he's got a pretty good idea of what he is talking about.
Excerpt:
"It needs to be part of the curriculum ... Leaving aside the
statistics that get cited all the time about SAT scores and how music
improves them, it's simply a part of history," conductor Leonard
Slatkin told an audience at the National Press Club.
"What
better example for a young person, when describing the Napoleonic era,
than citing Beethoven in the Third Symphony, who dedicates this work to
Napoleon ... There's not one great piece of music that in some way
doesn't reflect part of history."
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