MUSIC IS A SCIENCE. It is exact, specific, highly organized and must be 100%
correct. It embodies many levels of physics from acoustics to architecture.

MUSIC IS MATHEMATICS. It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time in
space into fractions, which must be done instantaneously, and not worked out on paper,
in a highly specific form with regard to exact placement and symmetry. It is disciplined
and logical.

MUSIC IS LANGUAGE. It is composed of phrases, thoughts and ideas. Its goal is to
communicate and to reach a part of us where words no longer suffice. Most of the terms
are in a foreign language, mostly Italian, German or French. The line notation is certainly
NOT English, but a highly developed and organized symbolic system.

MUSIC IS HISTORY. It is the only art form we can hear as people hundreds of years
ago heard. Unlike paint, whose image is always there once created, music is perpetually
“repainted” each time it is performed. The feelings and thoughts of countless generations
are forever cast into sound.

MUSIC IS PHYSICAL EDUCATION. It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, eyes, hands, lips, cheek and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the
diaphragmatic, back, stomach and chest muscles. There are as many calories burned by a
symphony trumpet player in one performance as there are by a quarterback in a
professional football game.

MUSIC IS ALL OF THESE THINGS AND MORE, BUT ABOVE ALL, MUSIC IS
AN ART. It allows a human being to take science and technique and create EMOTION.
This is the one thing that science cannot duplicate — human feelings and emotions.

BUT SO YOU WILL BE MORE HUMAN. So you will recognize beauty. So you will
be more sensitive, especially to all the thoughts and feelings put into sound throughout
the ages. So you will be closer to the infinity of your own heart and soul. So you will
have something to cling to. So you will feel the beauty of being alive. And so you will
come to know the value of your own self.