– Director’s Notes: May 2020 –

After the governor’s announcements Friday, it seems we will have to increase our level of creativity and productivity in order to stay engaged in musical pursuits at home during the month of May. Although disappointed, we are holding steady with online lessons and coaching sessions, and looking forward to in person lessons as soon as possible!

Music is essential in mysterious, intangible ways! For brain development, motor skills, emotional expression, and collective and personal artistic achievement! I am trusting you each to increase creativity and purpose in your lives, as we move from Spring into our Northwest summer, with so many changes and challenges! I hope you enjoy the quotes below as much as I do!

Your Director,
Sharyn Peterson

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius, The Book of Rites

“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
― Martin Luther

“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
― Frederick Delius

“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss“

“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.”
― Pablo Casals

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
― Piotr Tchaikovsky

“The job of art is to chase ugliness away.”
― Bono

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
― Henry Van Dyke

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