I love music. I love learning music. I love learning new things in music. And although I am kind of a music nerd, and while I love seriously deep music theory and pushing the envelope musically and doing all kinds of crazy things like that—I love people more. Perhaps it is because of that, that one of my absolute favorite aspects of music and I think I’m more in tune to every new year, especially as I just get to know and encounter so many more wonderful students, is the therapeutic nature of music.
For so many of our students, music lessons are therapy. And we’re here for that! Just the other day I had a student telling me how much it just felt good to sit down and play their instrument. And for this student, that’s a big deal because there’s a lot of things that unfortunately don’t feel good, and that’s true of course for a lot of people. But I am so thankful that our wonderful students can sit down and play their instrument and find happiness in it, find solace in it, find peace in it.
Summer is almost here. Believe it or not, for a lot of kids, Summer may not necessarily be All that fun. It could be a time of anxiety or depression. A time of boredom. Would your child or teen benefit from hanging out with somebody who’s a great person, who will listen to them, who will care for them, and also who will engage them in exciting new learning opportunities like the art of music? If so, we’re totally here for them.or 