"Music education is one of the most powerful learning experiences we can offer our children. Music provides a sense of joy and healing that all children should be able to access"
Michael Allen Harrison - Composer, Founder of Ten Grands/Snowman Foundation
The First Note CD is Complete!
August brings the much anticipated completion of our First Note Music CD. We have been very involved in the editing portion of the CD and it's amazing to learn all that goes into a great CD. All 48 songs sound wonderful as our 15 young artists sing with heart and soul. We will gather them together and share with them the sounds they created. They will each receive a CD and special certificate for participating and creating this important piece of our First Note Music Curriculum.
The Case for Music Education Strengthens
A recent data-driven review by Northwestern University has pulled together research that links musical training to learning that spills over into skills including language, speech, memory, attention and even vocal emotion. Researcher Nina Kraus said the  data strongly suggested that the neural connections made during musical training also primed the brain for other aspects of human communication... The researchers concluded that there needed to be a serious investment of resources into music training in schools accompanied with rigorous examinations of the effects of such instruction on listening, learning, memory, attention, and literacy skills. Nature Reviews Neuroscience (August 2010)
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ic Foundation, Inc.
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