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Center for Lifelong Music Making
Dedicated to fostering a musically able and active population
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Why make music?
It's fun and enjoyable!
Music making creates vitality.
- Singing and music making transform the experience of being alive.
- When we make music, more areas of our brains “light up” than when we perform any other singular activity.
- Singing boosts our Immunoglobulin A (IgA), a disease-fighting protein (see Beck's study on this website's Research page).
- Singing enhances health, well being and longevity...watch these amazing 70 to 100-year-olds singing rock songs in their Young@Heart Chorus!
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Music is a natural intelligence you are born with; there are no unmusical people (Dr. Howard Gardner).
- Babies sing before they speak. Singing and playing an instrument are no more special talents than riding a bike, swimming, reading, or adding and subtracting.
- Everyone can learn to sing in tune and play instruments (unless one has a profound disability such as "amusia," the inability to recognize or produce tones, found in less than 5% of the population). Be inspired by the drumline at Sidney Lanier School , a group of children with moderate to severe developmental disabilities.
- How do you keep hope alive when everything is lost? The Estonians kept their spirits free during occupation by two foreign empires. See the documentary The Singing Revolution.
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Music making raises achievement in other disciplines such as reading and math (see Research on this website).
Start singing today!
Contact: Ann Kay, Director
952.937.1110
annckay@comcast.net
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