Info about some NE/NY music programs?

musicprnt
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:26:53 +0000

nightchef:

As far as saving the world goes,tell him he might as well go into music, as given the state of the world, International Relations experts don’t seem to have more of a clue then the rest of us (and obviously that is meant as a joke) and maybe music can really save the world, as in the popular cliche…

I would agree with you, even if he is thinking of going the pop music route being able to play the piano at a technically higher level would only make him a better musician and performer I believe. And despite the popular image of pop and rock music (which does have some truth to it) of the three chords and an attitude and the honky-tonk keyboardist who learned in a garage or something, there are a lot of people in that world who have classical training and have said it helped them be better musicians and to do better work. I saw Billy Joel on a program recently, and he said that his study of the piano growing up helped him a great deal in his career (interestingly enough, Billy Joel in these later years is listening only to classical music and is working on writing classical piano pieces, least acording to what he said), and he isn’t the only one.