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Read my lips,
we're going to cut spending.

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There is a problem, we're broke.

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We're broke,
we're broke, we're broke.

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My, my very first thoughts
as a child, uh, came from music.

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Music has always been
part of my family life.

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I paint every day,
and I sing every day.

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Music is a huge part of my life.

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I cannot imagine
a world without music.

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One of the most fun
I ever had in school

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was the day we got up
in front of the, uh, auditorium.

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When it comes to cutting
funding for the arts in school,

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I think that's
a terrible, uh, way to go.

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Imagining a life
in school with no music.

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Couldn't imagine
a world without music.

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You know, I think
it's the most powerful
form of, of magic really.

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As a result of having
to cut back in the short term,

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we have cut
the arts from public schools.

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It's shocking to me
that certain high schools
don't have any arts programs.

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Yeah, it's lack, definitely
lacking and it's scary.

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[gentle music]

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Music definitely
kept me off the streets.

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I have few memories
of going outside as a kid,

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because there was
so much gang activity

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and the fear of mixing in
with the wrong crowd of people

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that didn't
have my best interest.

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Looking back, I can see
that the world around me
was a war zone.

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Not necessarily a war zone
for in the physical,
but in the mental.

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In the midst of all of this,
I was fortunate
to be introduced to the flute.

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Music, like, definitely kept me
from wanting to spend my time

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doing other things
with other people

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that weren't constructive
or, or beneficial for me.

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We are engaged
in an interesting project

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that has to do with studying
and really investigating

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the effects of music training
in the developing brain.

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If you start learning music

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and, actually, just
even listening to music
very early in life,

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that is going to
have a positive effect.

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The fundamental things
that we're seeing is that

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the ma-- the maturation of
the brain, in the sections
of the brain

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that are associated
with auditory processes
or the processes of sounds.

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What happens is
that it's accelerated,

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so these children have,

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for example,
electrons holographic curves,
the electric potentials

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that are generated
by sounds are proximating

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the curves that
you see in adults.

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And quite different from
the kids that are not
having music teaching.

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I was nine years old,
and I was in Atlantic City,

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I stood next to Gene Krupa,
who was in the very
back ballroom.

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And there was a rope
and I was just watching him

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and he kept looking over at me
and realizing that
I was just into the music.

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Anyone who knows about aphasia,

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and how, um, a left-handed
severe stroke and a right hander

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will often effect speech
perception or speech production.

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It, it immediately
begs the question,

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well, what happens
with music perception?

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I think that young people are
naturally interested in music,

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and learning about how
the brain works through music

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and your own experiences
with music,

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facilitates the teaching
of neuroscience to young people.

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Yeah, music is
such an amazing outlet.

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For myself,
I feel like if I'm in a bad mood

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or I'm cranky or something
doesn't feel quite right,

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I'm anxious, I'm like how long
has it been since I've sang.

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Because getting on a stage
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of my own home
or with a small crowd,

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when I'm singing
and projecting that out,

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I'm getting out emotions,
I'm relieving stress instantly.

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All of these interventions
that we are having as children,

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will have a beneficial impact
in the structure of the brain,

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and in the way that brain
is going to be prepared

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to deal with many other
things, uh, in, in, in society

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in terms of the careers
of this, uh, children.

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The universe is the
transformation of vibrations

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into matter,
right matter is emotion.

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That's what art is.
Whether it be a dance piece
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a great melody or that lyric
that you connect to,

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that you identify with,
that brings you back in time
to that special place.

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It's a connective tissue
to our spirit.

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It's what connects us
to rhythm of the planet.

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That's how we're all unified,
is really through art.

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[Martin] Music connects us
cathartically to our emotions.

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It's a constant healer,
it's the common thread.

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It's the international language
that doesn't have to
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And if you could bottle that,

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there would probably be no war.

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There's so much we don't know
and music is all in that.

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Because what did they say
in The Bible?

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"In the beginning was
the word and the word was God,
and the word was with God."

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What does that mean,
what is the word?

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Well, according to some people,
the word is that first sound.

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[inhaling] Ohm.

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The "ohm", the frequency,
everything starts from
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There's a science to harmonics.

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And it translates into society,
because I want to live
in harmony.

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[humming]

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Singing in church was, you know,

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when you, when you sing
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there is a performance
element of it.

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But singing for God is,
is, is a beautiful experience.

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[Keith David humming]

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[Tony Bennett] Well, jazz is
music that was invented
in America.

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Down South,
by African Americans.

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And it's their music
and I just fell in love with it.

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From, uh, New Orleans,
Louisiana all that,
here comes Wynton.

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[laughing]
Here comes Wynton Marsalis.

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The difference between Wynton
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is that he's been charged with

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carrying this load called jazz.

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[jazz music]

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[Tony Bennett] Because it
allows you to improvise,

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and never... [stuttering]
sing the same thing twice.

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You, you just sing for whatever
the moment is and react to that,

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to communicate exactly
how you feel at that moment.

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And it's a wonderful art form
that I love very much.

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[audience clapping]

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[Whoopi Goldberg] What I do,
when I do my shows,

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when I'm talking
about different things
is, it's all jazz,

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because it's where it goes,
it's how it flows.

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It's, it's the rhythm
and the rhyme of stuff,

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you know, that you
have in your everyday life.
It's the walk that you do.

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It's all of that. So we're all
really musically inclined.

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And it's also
for us as Americans,

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that's really
our first form of music

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that is particularly American.

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You know, that is,
that was born here.

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That didn't come from
anywhere else, that's ours.

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[audience cheering and clapping]

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[Myka Miller] I would say
that Harmony Project

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was really founded because
there is a lack of music
education in the schools.

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I can't say there's none, but

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68% of public elementary
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do not receive music education.
That's a lot of kids.

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It's the arts.
Whether it's music or painting
or any kind of artistry.

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Poetry, that teaches
a child how to express

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what's going on
within him or herself.

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So, if you cut
funding for those programs,

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you, you cut the access
that kid have to express.

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Because sometimes,
especially young kids,

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they don't have
the vocabulary to express,

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but you put a crayon
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or you give them an instrument
and they'll figure it out.

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And that's a great tool
for them for healing.

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-One and two.
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[Daniel Egwurube]
I, immediately, when my teacher

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in the first lesson,
I remember he played

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a flute excerpt
from Peter and the Wolf.

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And it's, it's
a fantastic except.

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And right then and there
I fell in love with the flute.

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He sounded incredible and
I was like I wanted to be that,

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I wanted to work hard at this
and become just as good
as he was.

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I'm a hundred thousand years old
and I still remember
Peter and the Wolf.

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[car humming]

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In Nigeria,
you have to have parents
that have already made it.

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If you don't have
parents or somebody

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that you depend on
that is doing well,

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then, uh, you just have
to grow up,

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you know,
with your own struggles.

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[Daniel Egwurube]
I was born in Nigeria.

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I remember the friends
I had in Nigeria.

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I remember the,
the difference in culture.

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And, uh, when I came here, it
was, everything just seemed so

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non, non-family-like,
non neighbor-like.

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Everyone kept
to their selves a lot more.

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My, my dad thought there was,
there was a lot more
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and a lot more
things you could do,

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you could make something
of yourself here in America.

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One again, one and two.

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My teacher,
my current teacher today,

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when I was 10 years old, Amy,

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one of the first things
I thought about when--

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uh, after a few lessons
with her, I was like,
"No one can be this happy."

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She had, she brought such an
energy to the classroom always

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and I'm like,
"She can't keep this up."

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[everyone laughing]

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[Amy Tatum] I met Daniel,
I guess it would have been
about nine years ago.

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He started the program at Expo,
and he wasn't in my class
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he was in another class,
but I, I heard him play a jury.

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It might have been
his first jury ever.

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[Daniel Egwurube] But the thing
about is, I found out, it just,

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she had such a passion
for teaching us.

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And she enjoyed it
so much and she brought a light

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to the classroom every single
day without failure.

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[orchestral music]

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[Amy Tatum] The Harmony Project
does so much for these kids.

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On the most basic level
it gives them

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something to do after school.
You know, and it gives them

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a community to belong to.

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A community of peers
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who all respect each other
and are coming together
to create something.

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Which is kind of powerful.

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You know, so a lot of
our kids are going to college,

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and they're finding out
about college because
they play music.

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You know, they're finding out
about all these other
opportunities because of music.

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It's not that they're
going to be the next Yo-Yo Ma,

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but that music
has opened doors for them

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that they would
not otherwise have open.

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[train humming]

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[Daniel Egwurube] Music for me
is a, is a sense of power.

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Because the way I look at it,
when I have my instrument,

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I have-- I make my own world
where I'm in control.

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I can practice, I can
know more about this world,

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I can be able to manipulate it
to what I want to do.

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And being able to
manipulate an inanimate object

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to do something so beautiful
is so empowering.

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And I feel like that's what
more people need
in the world today,

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to be more powerful,
and feel more powerful.

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I listened to a
lot of classical music,

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a lot of jazz,
modern jazz, 40's jazz

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from Wynton to Miles,
from Beethoven to Philip Glass.

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[orchestral music]

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It's really sad
they're cutting funding because

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when I was a kid,
that's where I went, you know,

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during lunch time,
recess time, was the music room.

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You know, that was my, my place
where I just, I felt free.

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I felt like my, you know,
artsy kind of friends
would hang out there.

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Whether it be actors or dancers
or you know
musicians themselves.

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We'd all just hang out
and create, you know,

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then go back to the boring
school work...
[laughing] so.

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[light music]

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[Myka Miller]
The Harmony Project is
an after school music program.

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It's not really about the music,

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it's about youth development,
empowering children.

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We say it's a music program,
I think music is the empathist,

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but really it's about, you know,
all the non-musical things
that children experience.

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[dramatic orchestral music]

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Harmony Project was founded
in 2001 with 36 students.

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Fast forward to today,
we have 2,053 students.

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It's crazy. The demand
in Los Angeles is just so big.

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So we get very
little government money

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and what we do get is
primarily arts funding.

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Um, I've been trying to
like kind of breakthrough

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to, to show that this is really
youth development and not arts,
because I think arts

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are kind of like
this afterthought.

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[dramatic orchestral music]

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It's really,
you know there's a lot

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of private money that
is picking up the slack.

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But if we don't
continue to advocate,

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you know, it's going to be
just a thing where

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all those people,
they're handling it.

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And I think it has
to be something that we're

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constantly pushing
and constantly fighting

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because what would
a world be like

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without art. You know,
I mean, I can't imagine school--

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I can't even imagine
growing up without music.

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You know, for me
that's impossible.

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And so my thing is
that a lot of families

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that can afford it, or, you
kwow, school districts
that can afford it,

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they, they're kind of working
out deals and, um, you know,
parents are paying for it.

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It's a pay to
play kind of thing.

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Don't judge what the music
is, is telling you to play.

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It's like a feeling of
we're here, like resolution.

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[Myka Miller] What I really
worry about is these really
low income neighborhoods

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where they don't
have that wherewithal

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and you know, obviously the
schools are already struggling.

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And so arts
is going to be pushed back.

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Yeah. It angers me.

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Those particular
areas have been cut.

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Not really realizing
the importance of music.

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[jazz music]

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[Myka Miller] And a lot of these
kids just need opportunities,
you know.

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They just need
doors to be opened for them.

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You know, when I was a kid,
uh, I, uh, we at least had

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band at my school.

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You know, I ended up, uh,
I think I played the bass drum.

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That was my big thing.
[chuckling]

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I wanted to be a trumpet player,

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because I wanted to play
"Reveille" in the morning,
you know.

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[scatting "Reveille"]

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[upbeat rock music]

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I'm starting a new charity,
and it's called The Music Path.

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And, uh, we're starting
in Glendale at some
of the high schools there.

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And we're, we're getting, uh,
we're te-- teaching teachers

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how to teach kids
to play in a group together.

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Like a rock and roll or whatever
kind of music they want.

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[upbeat jazz music]

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We are going to provide
reading, writing, and arithmetic

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come hell or high water.
No matter what happens.

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Why do we not
have the same attitude

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and commitment to the arts?

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It is horrible,
and they don't have access

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to a vehicle that's
going to bring them some joy,

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you know, and, and maybe be
a ticket to a, a life that they

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would be passionate about.

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[upbeat music]

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00:20:07,380 --> 00:20:10,209
There's a lot of kids that
are going to turn into the next,

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like, that have the potential
to be the next

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whoever that's going to
bring a lot of joy to
a lot of other people.

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[upbeat rock music]

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Well, we have a foundation
called Keeping The Blues Alive.

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And it's designed
to give out money to schools.

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And whether it be
guitar strings, instruments,

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you name it,
and the thing about it is,

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we give a kid a guitar
or a piano or a music book.

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Um, it changes their life
or it could potentially
change their life.

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I mean, they, they could get
so deep into it that they can't
live without playing the piano,

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00:21:02,565 --> 00:21:04,350
and they go out and make
a living playing the piano.

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When you play a piece
of music that you feel

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so strongly about
and connect with,
and you can communicate that,

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it helped me become
a better communicator.

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[upbeat flute music]

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00:21:25,632 --> 00:21:27,503
I usually
practice in the bathroom,

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because I feel like
I can hear myself more,

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the acoustics are better.

324
00:21:31,942 --> 00:21:35,250
And it sounds like
you're playing in an opera house

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because it kind of
echos a little.

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So, even though
you might not sound that great,

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if you just play out you,
you can feel really good

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about yourself
because you feel huge.

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[upbeat flute music]

330
00:21:47,567 --> 00:21:50,918
I don't remember
a moment in life without music.

331
00:21:51,048 --> 00:21:56,445
I usually, 95% of the time
I have the Frank Sinatra
station on.

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Uh, I love Sinatra, I loved him,
I did a film with him,

333
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and I knew him, we were
good friends for a while.

334
00:22:03,452 --> 00:22:06,194
I loved him, I knew,
I was confident he loved me.

335
00:22:06,325 --> 00:22:11,112
And I listen to him,
and I love the music
of my generation,

336
00:22:11,417 --> 00:22:15,334
uh, which is to say
the 40's and 50's, 60's.

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00:22:15,464 --> 00:22:17,248
[jazz music]

338
00:22:20,251 --> 00:22:23,516
My first memories
of music were, uh, The Beatles

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and Ray Charles on the radio.

340
00:22:25,082 --> 00:22:27,302
I would listen
to music constantly.

341
00:22:27,433 --> 00:22:30,349
I went in and bought
Meet the Beatleswith pennies.

342
00:22:30,479 --> 00:22:34,614
I think it was $1.99 on an LP,
but I used all pennies
at the Woolworth's.

343
00:22:34,744 --> 00:22:38,226
You know, a couple of dozen
songs that will bring
a tear to my eye.

344
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I remember I flew in the,
in World War II,

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I flew a lot of
missions over Germany.

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I was a radio operator
at Gunner,

347
00:22:47,801 --> 00:22:49,672
but I remember on the way over,

348
00:22:50,456 --> 00:22:54,285
we stopped in Gander,
uh, the Gander Islands,

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00:22:54,895 --> 00:23:01,597
and I had the 12, uh,
midnight to 2:00 a.m. shift

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00:23:01,728 --> 00:23:06,907
guarding the plane
and the, my instruction
is to march from wing to wing,

351
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from wing to wing for two hours.

352
00:23:09,997 --> 00:23:14,480
Anyway, so I'm doing that
and I'm singing
at the top of my voice.

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And I remember
particularly singing.

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♪ We'll meet again

355
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♪ Don't know where
Don't know when ♪

356
00:23:22,575 --> 00:23:25,273
♪ But I know we'll meet again

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♪ Some sunny day

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00:23:27,449 --> 00:23:30,321
♪ We'll meet again

359
00:23:30,452 --> 00:23:34,108
♪ Don't know where
Don't know when ♪

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00:23:34,238 --> 00:23:39,505
♪ But I know we'll meet again
Some sunny day ♪

361
00:23:41,985 --> 00:23:46,773
I had tears pouring down...
[laughing] my face singing
those songs.

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00:23:47,643 --> 00:23:51,865
Uh, as sad as can be
and as happy as could be
at the same time.

363
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♪ Far away

364
00:23:55,129 --> 00:23:57,610
♪ And won't you please
Say hello ♪

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00:23:57,740 --> 00:23:59,873
♪ To the folks that I know

366
00:24:00,003 --> 00:24:02,702
♪ Tell them I won't be long

367
00:24:03,224 --> 00:24:04,486
♪ They'll be happy to know

368
00:24:04,617 --> 00:24:06,967
When I was maybe 11 years old,

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I was in the street,
we were playing stick ball.

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00:24:10,971 --> 00:24:13,887
I remember the names
of the kids I was playing with.
My mother leans out,

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we're in the fourth floor,
tenement building,
my mother leans out the window

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and says,
"Norman, Norman, Norman!"

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00:24:20,328 --> 00:24:21,242
[lady] Norman!

374
00:24:22,678 --> 00:24:25,115
"We're having dinner
early tonight because Kate Smith

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-is singing the musicals
round and round."
-[clicking]

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[announcer] And now
we take great pleasure
in presenting to you,

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the star of our program,
Ms. Kate Smith.

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[audience clapping]

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♪ You

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♪ Something to me

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00:24:42,611 --> 00:24:46,659
♪ Something that
Simply mystifies me ♪

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00:24:46,789 --> 00:24:50,445
When I was about 14,
I started writing music.
So I wrote like 60 songs.

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00:24:50,837 --> 00:24:55,145
I filed myself with... [laughs]
the Library of Congress.

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00:24:55,276 --> 00:24:56,973
One of them was
called "When I Was a Boy."

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00:24:58,975 --> 00:25:01,500
And it was about
a guy that goes to war, and,
uh, you know, it was in the 60s.

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00:25:01,630 --> 00:25:05,678
Now, I write comedy music
and, um, I'm very happy

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00:25:05,808 --> 00:25:11,074
with how I've evolved to
that way and found a niche
for what I do.

388
00:25:11,771 --> 00:25:16,297
Uh, a niche is a small knish
that you give to your niece.

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00:25:16,427 --> 00:25:20,780
Music is one of
the most important things
that gets us through life.

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00:25:20,910 --> 00:25:24,566
It really, you know,
does soothe the savage beast.

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[upbeat music]

392
00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:37,361
♪ This kind of temptation

393
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♪ Swore I wouldn't give in

394
00:25:43,193 --> 00:25:46,675
♪ Because once you
Felt your heartbreak ♪

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00:25:46,806 --> 00:25:49,069
♪ You find yourself saying

396
00:25:49,199 --> 00:25:52,507
♪ You're never going to
Fall again ♪

397
00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:56,990
♪ So, go on your comical lie

398
00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:59,558
♪ I don't need to be wrong

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00:25:59,688 --> 00:26:03,039
♪ If you want to
Make me believe ♪

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[Justin] My, my first music
teacher in school

401
00:26:05,694 --> 00:26:08,349
was elementary school,
and his name was Mr. Gaines.

402
00:26:08,479 --> 00:26:11,221
And he's actually
the only teacher's name

403
00:26:11,352 --> 00:26:15,138
that I can recall
from elementary school,
which is horrible.

404
00:26:15,269 --> 00:26:18,272
But, it's just that he had
a pretty profound impact on me

405
00:26:18,402 --> 00:26:20,883
and, um, you know,
I remember him so fondly,

406
00:26:21,014 --> 00:26:22,798
because he would
let me stay after school

407
00:26:22,929 --> 00:26:24,278
or after class, you know,

408
00:26:24,408 --> 00:26:26,149
if I didn't want to go
to math or something.

409
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,108
-[both laughing]
-[upbeat guitar strumming]

410
00:26:37,683 --> 00:26:39,989
[?÷} I was able to actually
have a lot of music and arts

411
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involved in my school,
my family.

412
00:26:42,601 --> 00:26:45,081
My dad growing up,
he played in pit orchestras

413
00:26:45,212 --> 00:26:47,344
for all the musicals
that would come off of Broadway

414
00:26:47,475 --> 00:26:48,694
when they would
to town into Philly.

415
00:26:50,347 --> 00:26:52,393
And we had a repair shop
in my basement,

416
00:26:52,523 --> 00:26:54,613
so there's always
different kinds of instruments,

417
00:26:54,743 --> 00:26:56,310
all kinds of
stuff laying around.

418
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,313
So, I started playing clarinet
at second grade I think and

419
00:26:59,443 --> 00:27:01,228
my mom was
a singer and my stepmom

420
00:27:01,358 --> 00:27:04,187
was in the Philadelphia
Orchestra, so I was very,
very blessed.

421
00:27:07,538 --> 00:27:08,931
-[Justin] That's hard to
say what would...
-[Sarah] Yeah.

422
00:27:09,062 --> 00:27:10,890
...what would happen, uh,
if we weren't

423
00:27:11,542 --> 00:27:14,371
exposed to,
to music in, in school

424
00:27:14,502 --> 00:27:16,373
when we were coming up because
it might have been a talent

425
00:27:16,504 --> 00:27:17,853
that we just might
not have tapped into.

426
00:27:17,984 --> 00:27:19,333
-Yeah, totally.
-Because we might not have known

427
00:27:19,463 --> 00:27:20,247
it was there.

428
00:27:22,118 --> 00:27:25,731
I'm a luthier, uh,
called an old world luthier.

429
00:27:25,861 --> 00:27:28,516
Because of the way I build
still. It's very traditional,

430
00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:30,126
and I'm third generation
luthier.

431
00:27:30,257 --> 00:27:32,172
The business started in 1928

432
00:27:32,302 --> 00:27:34,348
with my grandfather
and my great-uncle.

433
00:27:34,478 --> 00:27:38,439
And, uh, my grandfather, uh,
started working in
a furniture shop,

434
00:27:38,569 --> 00:27:40,310
um, but they were
both musicians.

435
00:27:40,441 --> 00:27:44,097
And, uh, musicians started
bringing them broken instruments

436
00:27:44,227 --> 00:27:45,881
and asking him to repair them.

437
00:27:46,012 --> 00:27:48,579
Somebody kind of
challenged him one time
to build a guitar.

438
00:27:48,710 --> 00:27:50,581
They eventually
started getting a reputation

439
00:27:50,712 --> 00:27:53,497
for what they were doing,
and they started the business.

440
00:27:54,934 --> 00:27:57,371
Because I still do
everything old-fashioned

441
00:27:57,501 --> 00:28:00,417
or old world,
you're not going to find
a lot of power tools.

442
00:28:00,548 --> 00:28:04,900
This is a... a guitar with
wood that came from a fence

443
00:28:05,031 --> 00:28:07,120
that was on the
property at Graceland.

444
00:28:07,598 --> 00:28:11,254
And, uh, even the forest
got a little, a little crown
on there for the King.

445
00:28:11,385 --> 00:28:14,823
Two, here we go.
In two, out two.

446
00:28:14,954 --> 00:28:16,695
[Laurie Schell] Nashville
is music city.

447
00:28:16,825 --> 00:28:21,177
Music is fundamental to
everything that is Nashville.

448
00:28:21,308 --> 00:28:23,440
[teacher] Three, four, five.

449
00:28:23,571 --> 00:28:27,706
[Laurie Schell] Music city
has a message to the world

450
00:28:28,228 --> 00:28:30,534
that music
is important to all of us.

451
00:28:30,665 --> 00:28:31,797
♪ Love you, baby

452
00:28:31,927 --> 00:28:34,364
♪ Let me love

453
00:28:34,495 --> 00:28:36,497
I got an email
from Laurie asking me

454
00:28:36,627 --> 00:28:38,325
if I would be
interested in being involved,

455
00:28:38,455 --> 00:28:40,457
and create
quality music programs

456
00:28:40,588 --> 00:28:42,851
in all of our schools
here in Davidson County.

457
00:28:42,982 --> 00:28:45,288
There's a lot of
great research out there

458
00:28:45,419 --> 00:28:49,249
about music and
students and student success.

459
00:28:49,379 --> 00:28:51,468
But we wanted
to see what happened

460
00:28:51,599 --> 00:28:53,819
when we asked
those same questions

461
00:28:53,949 --> 00:28:55,342
of our students
here in Nashville.

462
00:28:55,821 --> 00:28:59,172
And we found that there
is very strong correlation

463
00:28:59,302 --> 00:29:01,827
between participating in music

464
00:29:02,175 --> 00:29:05,831
and student attendance,
grade point average.

465
00:29:05,961 --> 00:29:09,791
Coming to school
every day is, is a great thing

466
00:29:09,922 --> 00:29:12,838
and it, it enables
students to be happy

467
00:29:12,968 --> 00:29:15,188
about being there,
and wanting to learn.

468
00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:18,234
They're more
likely to be successful.

469
00:29:18,365 --> 00:29:19,845
[upbeat music]

470
00:29:19,975 --> 00:29:21,585
[Manuel Delgado] Our goal
is never to

471
00:29:21,716 --> 00:29:23,762
take away band,
choir, and orchestra.

472
00:29:23,892 --> 00:29:26,765
We want to keep those
traditional disciplines
in the school.

473
00:29:26,895 --> 00:29:29,245
But a lot of kids kind
of fall through the cracks

474
00:29:29,724 --> 00:29:32,727
that might be interested in
other genres or styles of music.

475
00:29:33,162 --> 00:29:35,512
So they talked about,
you know, bringing in hip hop

476
00:29:35,643 --> 00:29:37,427
and world drumming
and lead guitar,

477
00:29:37,558 --> 00:29:39,995
song writing, and, uh, mariachi.

478
00:29:40,126 --> 00:29:42,171
[upbeat music]

479
00:29:42,302 --> 00:29:44,608
♪ Ah, twist and shout
Shake it up, baby ♪

480
00:29:44,739 --> 00:29:47,960
♪ Twist and shout

481
00:29:48,090 --> 00:29:50,571
♪ Come on, come on
Come on, baby, now ♪

482
00:29:50,701 --> 00:29:52,442
♪ Come on, baby

483
00:29:52,573 --> 00:29:54,401
♪ Come on, and work it on out

484
00:29:54,531 --> 00:29:56,707
♪ Work it on out

485
00:29:56,838 --> 00:29:58,797
[Gabriela Fuentes] If there
is scientific research saying

486
00:29:58,927 --> 00:30:00,886
"Hey, this builds up
your cognitive skills.

487
00:30:01,016 --> 00:30:03,018
Hey, this builds
up your test scores."

488
00:30:03,149 --> 00:30:05,499
And that's what
every school wants,

489
00:30:05,629 --> 00:30:07,240
why is that
we don't have it then?

490
00:30:07,370 --> 00:30:10,809
I remember the music that, um,
that I listened to as a kid,

491
00:30:10,939 --> 00:30:12,680
the Latin music,
the salsa music,

492
00:30:13,550 --> 00:30:14,900
I didn't like it as a kid.

493
00:30:15,422 --> 00:30:17,946
I thought it was
bringing us down,

494
00:30:18,077 --> 00:30:20,819
because a lot of the hoodlums
in the neighborhood,
they loved it.

495
00:30:21,645 --> 00:30:23,822
[humming Latin music]

496
00:30:23,952 --> 00:30:26,694
And I was like... [scoffing] and
I was trying to say, "Come on,

497
00:30:26,825 --> 00:30:29,479
we're not all the same,
we're not all like that."

498
00:30:29,610 --> 00:30:31,742
And one cat came up
to me and said,

499
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,922
"Yeah, you don't like it now,
but when you get older, man,
you're going to love it."

500
00:30:37,052 --> 00:30:38,140
I'm like, "Yeah, right."

501
00:30:38,271 --> 00:30:40,055
And sure enough... [laughing]

502
00:30:40,186 --> 00:30:42,101
...in like my early 20's,

503
00:30:42,231 --> 00:30:45,234
19 and 20 years old,
I heard one album

504
00:30:45,365 --> 00:30:48,237
by Willie Colon and
Ruben Blades called Siembra.

505
00:30:48,977 --> 00:30:50,936
And it just, oh.

506
00:30:51,937 --> 00:30:53,677
♪ Ah

507
00:30:53,808 --> 00:30:55,592
[Gabriela Fuentes] The kids
come from broken homes,

508
00:30:56,028 --> 00:30:58,726
and they come
with self-esteem issues.

509
00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:01,294
And a lot of that
is building that up first.

510
00:31:02,164 --> 00:31:05,559
I don't know if they'll
all become musicians later on,

511
00:31:05,689 --> 00:31:09,041
but I just hope
that they enjoyed it
while they're here.

512
00:31:09,606 --> 00:31:11,608
♪ La, la bamba

513
00:31:11,739 --> 00:31:13,436
You start to give them
this confidence

514
00:31:13,567 --> 00:31:15,134
that it's like
you can do anything.

515
00:31:15,264 --> 00:31:16,875
♪ La, la bamba

516
00:31:20,835 --> 00:31:22,097
♪ Mariachi

517
00:31:26,014 --> 00:31:27,494
[kid] You ask anyone
in that class,

518
00:31:27,624 --> 00:31:30,018
they'll probably say
this one is like their favorite.

519
00:31:30,627 --> 00:31:32,847
-[orchestral music]
-Up.

520
00:31:32,978 --> 00:31:36,372
Again, again, air not face.
One, two, ready, again.

521
00:31:40,550 --> 00:31:42,465
[Susan] I had an
interesting home life.

522
00:31:42,596 --> 00:31:45,686
I was not a wealthy kid.
I had maybe two outfits.

523
00:31:45,816 --> 00:31:48,080
I wore the same clothes
to school every day.

524
00:31:48,210 --> 00:31:51,213
And I was one of those kids
that could have
very easily been lost.

525
00:31:51,344 --> 00:31:53,650
But I had a great band director
who happened to be female.

526
00:31:53,781 --> 00:31:55,478
[orchestral music]

527
00:31:56,349 --> 00:31:58,917
She influenced me.
She gave me a place to be.

528
00:31:59,047 --> 00:32:04,879
And she... I felt like I was
valued and I was talented
and I, I could do something.

529
00:32:05,010 --> 00:32:08,796
And I was more
than the bank account
that my parents didn't have.

530
00:32:08,927 --> 00:32:12,713
It saved me, I, I could
have been very easily lost
and could have been a statistic.

531
00:32:12,843 --> 00:32:15,150
And then I ended up
going into that profession,

532
00:32:15,716 --> 00:32:18,806
because I wanted to be, wanted
to be that for someone else.

533
00:32:18,937 --> 00:32:21,113
-[boy] Mrs. Waters,
she's amazing.
-Oh, I love Ms. Waters.

534
00:32:21,243 --> 00:32:23,724
-She's one of the best teachers
in this whole entire school.
-[girl] Yeah.

535
00:32:23,854 --> 00:32:25,900
She makes sure that
we understand what we're doing

536
00:32:26,031 --> 00:32:29,208
and what we're playing,
and she's just, she's just
a nice person overall.

537
00:32:29,338 --> 00:32:34,169
Music and art are the reason

538
00:32:34,300 --> 00:32:37,216
so many of our kids
come to school.

539
00:32:38,652 --> 00:32:41,785
Freshman year, I was very
shy and I was very quiet,

540
00:32:41,916 --> 00:32:45,572
and I would just prefer
to stay out of people's way.

541
00:32:46,138 --> 00:32:49,750
But then when I got to mariachi,
and then I got really
good at it,

542
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,317
and we'd just
go out and perform,

543
00:32:51,447 --> 00:32:52,840
it kind of
snapped that out of me.

544
00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:56,148
It was just like very powerful,
I was like, wow.

545
00:32:57,366 --> 00:33:00,761
[Dr. Nola Jones] So, we have
a really unique situation
in Nashville, Tennessee,

546
00:33:00,891 --> 00:33:02,763
because we're Music City, USA.

547
00:33:02,893 --> 00:33:05,896
The reality is,
the public school systems
can't do it alone.

548
00:33:06,332 --> 00:33:10,771
The fact that
we are a collective
is very important to our work.

549
00:33:10,901 --> 00:33:15,341
Uh, the mayor's office is
standing by us, the c--
the music community,

550
00:33:15,471 --> 00:33:18,213
the CMA Foundation
is standing by us.

551
00:33:18,344 --> 00:33:22,609
And in fact, has made
over, uh, ten, 11 million dollar

552
00:33:22,739 --> 00:33:27,918
commitment to music education
over the past decade
in Nashville.

553
00:33:28,049 --> 00:33:31,444
Uh, we couldn't do
this work without them.

554
00:33:31,574 --> 00:33:34,055
School is hard enough. You know,
when you're a kid, and you know,

555
00:33:34,186 --> 00:33:36,362
I mean there's bullying
and all these things going on,

556
00:33:36,492 --> 00:33:40,018
I, I really thing music
is a great escape for kids

557
00:33:40,148 --> 00:33:41,497
and I think
it's quite unfortunate

558
00:33:41,628 --> 00:33:43,630
that those
programs are being cut.

559
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:47,155
You're cheating the children
out of, uh, an experience.

560
00:33:47,286 --> 00:33:50,811
I always felt like I came
into the world loving music.

561
00:33:50,941 --> 00:33:52,987
I was exposed to
music at a very young age.

562
00:33:53,118 --> 00:33:54,989
Everyone in my family
loved music.

563
00:33:55,903 --> 00:34:01,387
♪ Hey, love, why can't you be
More like that? ♪

564
00:34:02,779 --> 00:34:08,655
♪ Hey, love, why can't you be
Made to last? ♪

565
00:34:09,656 --> 00:34:15,618
♪ Hey, love, wish I could find
Some comfort there ♪

566
00:34:15,749 --> 00:34:21,059
♪ Hey, love Wish you were like

567
00:34:21,189 --> 00:34:24,323
♪ This old t-shirt

568
00:34:26,107 --> 00:34:28,196
I think that music
is extremely valuable.

569
00:34:28,327 --> 00:34:33,114
I have five kids and
they've all had experiences
with music in school.

570
00:34:33,636 --> 00:34:35,986
Three of them became musicians,

571
00:34:36,117 --> 00:34:40,600
and I think that, uh, the music
had a lot to do, like my, my--

572
00:34:41,166 --> 00:34:43,603
We forget about
the self-esteem issues that,

573
00:34:43,733 --> 00:34:47,955
that it's a time
where a kid needs to have

574
00:34:48,086 --> 00:34:50,479
a strong sense
of self to survive.

575
00:34:51,350 --> 00:34:54,614
And music can help develop that.

576
00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:58,226
The main, like,
impact was in junior high.

577
00:34:58,357 --> 00:35:01,316
I had a teacher who,
I still remember her name,

578
00:35:01,447 --> 00:35:03,884
Mrs. Rumple was her name,
and she was so cool.

579
00:35:04,014 --> 00:35:07,496
She actually
introduced me to, uh, Motown
music for the first time.

580
00:35:07,627 --> 00:35:10,238
That was like, sort of that
age when I was petrified

581
00:35:10,369 --> 00:35:12,240
to sing on stage,
but I have this gift

582
00:35:12,371 --> 00:35:14,590
and I didn't really
know what to do with it and

583
00:35:14,721 --> 00:35:18,899
she really was
a big encourager of me
being a solo artist.

584
00:35:19,029 --> 00:35:22,555
She was such a, a great
influence to every kid
in my school.

585
00:35:22,685 --> 00:35:27,777
And I'm, I'm from a small town
in, in Iowa, and she made a big
impact. It was really wonderful.

586
00:35:28,822 --> 00:35:34,915
[Dr. Nola Jones] Our citizens
believe that music is, is vital
to a well-rounded curriculum.

587
00:35:35,045 --> 00:35:39,093
And so when the public
education system can't
provide everything...

588
00:35:40,181 --> 00:35:41,748
they're committed
to making it happen.

589
00:35:41,878 --> 00:35:44,229
And they've stepped up,
our city leaders,

590
00:35:44,359 --> 00:35:47,057
our administrator,
our upward administration,

591
00:35:47,188 --> 00:35:50,148
they've all stepped up
to make this a reality.

592
00:35:50,278 --> 00:35:53,629
Never have I seen
so many people coming together

593
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,328
to make this happen
as I do right now.

594
00:35:56,458 --> 00:35:59,592
[Dr. Nola Jones] I believe that
while every city may not have

595
00:35:59,722 --> 00:36:01,420
the music industry
as a resource,

596
00:36:01,550 --> 00:36:04,379
every large city has
a resource that they can tap.

597
00:36:05,075 --> 00:36:07,426
And I feel like
we can really be a model

598
00:36:07,556 --> 00:36:10,603
for the rest of the country
for urban education
and arts education.

599
00:36:10,733 --> 00:36:12,953
[upbeat music]

600
00:36:13,083 --> 00:36:14,824
[crew member]
Yeah, what you can,
you're off a little over here.

601
00:36:14,955 --> 00:36:16,391
-You think so?
-Yeah.

602
00:36:16,522 --> 00:36:18,350
-We're just going to--
-Okay, you got it.

603
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,656
Michael is nine years
older than me,

604
00:36:20,787 --> 00:36:25,966
and so, uh, aside from the music
that we got, uh, from school,

605
00:36:26,096 --> 00:36:29,404
he pretty early on
started putting bands together

606
00:36:29,535 --> 00:36:31,493
with my sister,
who was also a musician.

607
00:36:31,624 --> 00:36:33,234
[blues music]

608
00:36:35,584 --> 00:36:38,021
I remember sitting
on the steps of our basement,

609
00:36:38,152 --> 00:36:41,721
and hearing him
rehearse with their band

610
00:36:41,851 --> 00:36:43,679
and looking at that,
looking at the music that

611
00:36:43,810 --> 00:36:46,116
they were
creating and later on,
the music that he was writing.

612
00:36:46,247 --> 00:36:48,684
And I would hear
a song being created upstairs.

613
00:36:48,815 --> 00:36:50,469
And my sister
was like kind of a folky,

614
00:36:50,599 --> 00:36:52,862
you know, uh, Joanie Mitchell
type singer and,

615
00:36:52,993 --> 00:36:56,649
and, uh, so that was like
hugely kind of influential.

616
00:36:56,779 --> 00:37:00,218
And even though I think
I was already really interested

617
00:37:00,348 --> 00:37:03,786
in acting
probably before I even knew
what being an actor was,

618
00:37:03,917 --> 00:37:07,399
I also simultaneously
had melodies in my head,

619
00:37:07,529 --> 00:37:10,140
and lyrics in my head,
and it generally came.

620
00:37:10,271 --> 00:37:13,840
I was a very romantic child,
so it generally
came from heartbreak,

621
00:37:13,970 --> 00:37:17,365
like way too early.
You know, like
ten year old heartbreak.

622
00:37:17,496 --> 00:37:20,412
I would say well I got to write,
I got to write a sad song,
you know.

623
00:37:21,587 --> 00:37:23,502
[upbeat music]

624
00:37:30,639 --> 00:37:32,728
♪ Between the ides of March

625
00:37:34,687 --> 00:37:36,732
♪ The midnight songs we made

626
00:37:38,343 --> 00:37:41,650
♪ You're world turns
From black and white ♪

627
00:37:42,999 --> 00:37:45,219
♪ Gray on gray on gray

628
00:37:47,308 --> 00:37:50,833
♪ Here it comes

629
00:37:52,008 --> 00:37:55,447
♪ And it feels like love again

630
00:37:55,577 --> 00:37:59,364
♪ Here it comes

631
00:38:00,408 --> 00:38:03,542
♪ Screaming up
Like a downtown train ♪

632
00:38:04,151 --> 00:38:05,761
♪ Like broken glass

633
00:38:06,501 --> 00:38:10,157
♪ Here it comes

634
00:38:10,288 --> 00:38:12,681
♪ I love

635
00:38:14,509 --> 00:38:16,642
♪ Watching it pass

636
00:38:17,382 --> 00:38:20,733
[Michael] We, uh, grew up
in a family of six kids

637
00:38:21,255 --> 00:38:26,434
that, uh, valued creativity and
self-expression above all else.

638
00:38:26,565 --> 00:38:29,307
Grades, sports, money.

639
00:38:29,872 --> 00:38:33,223
So, um, it was about
acting lessons and dance lessons

640
00:38:33,354 --> 00:38:35,400
and music lessons
and art lessons.

641
00:38:35,530 --> 00:38:37,837
I think we grew up
in a very kind of creative house

642
00:38:37,967 --> 00:38:42,102
where expressing yourself
in some kind of artistic way
was very natural for us.

643
00:38:42,232 --> 00:38:44,931
Uh, we both when through
the Philadelphia
Public School System.

644
00:38:45,061 --> 00:38:49,501
Uh, I remember, I guess
maybe they gave you a recorder.

645
00:38:49,631 --> 00:38:52,025
That would be the first thing
that'd give you,

646
00:38:52,155 --> 00:38:56,464
and then at one point
they came and said,
"You can choose something."

647
00:38:56,595 --> 00:39:02,078
I think it was violin or, you
know, I think I played a trumpet
for a little while. [laughing]

648
00:39:02,209 --> 00:39:03,471
The things I find out
in these interviews.

649
00:39:03,602 --> 00:39:05,038
You never knew
I played the trumpet?

650
00:39:05,168 --> 00:39:06,822
Yeah, I, I got a trumpet.

651
00:39:06,953 --> 00:39:08,737
I loved it,
I loved opening it up

652
00:39:08,868 --> 00:39:11,174
and, uh, putting it together.

653
00:39:11,305 --> 00:39:14,569
I loved the, the smell
of the, of the instrument

654
00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:19,487
and, uh, the, the velvet in
the box, and the way it
all fit there.

655
00:39:20,532 --> 00:39:22,577
I was a terrible
trumpet player. I couldn't,

656
00:39:22,708 --> 00:39:24,710
couldn't get anything out of it,
but it was fun.

657
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,538
[dramatic music]

658
00:39:28,322 --> 00:39:30,672
[guitar strumming]

659
00:39:35,938 --> 00:39:39,202
I got a call recently,
in the last couple of years that

660
00:39:39,551 --> 00:39:43,598
my high school and the schools,
all across where I come from

661
00:39:43,729 --> 00:39:45,687
were having to cut budgets,
and cut music programs.

662
00:39:45,818 --> 00:39:47,820
And I... I was just
heartbroken by that.

663
00:39:47,950 --> 00:39:50,300
♪ It won't be that song

664
00:39:50,431 --> 00:39:53,652
♪ Gets you high
Makes you dance ♪

665
00:39:53,782 --> 00:39:55,218
♪ Makes you fall

666
00:39:55,349 --> 00:39:58,570
♪ That melody rewinds you

667
00:39:58,700 --> 00:40:00,398
♪ Wants to disappear

668
00:40:00,528 --> 00:40:02,269
♪ Makes time stall

669
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,403
♪ Be those words fill you up

670
00:40:05,533 --> 00:40:07,796
♪ Roll your windows down

671
00:40:07,927 --> 00:40:09,407
♪ Keeps you young

672
00:40:09,537 --> 00:40:15,238
♪ Makes you believe
Right where you belong ♪

673
00:40:15,369 --> 00:40:17,110
♪ Won't be that song

674
00:40:18,503 --> 00:40:21,070
♪ It won't be
Won't be, won't be ♪

675
00:40:21,201 --> 00:40:23,856
♪ Won't be that song

676
00:40:25,248 --> 00:40:28,426
♪ Yeah, yeah

677
00:40:32,604 --> 00:40:34,519
[soft music]

678
00:40:39,698 --> 00:40:41,874
[upbeat music]

679
00:40:57,803 --> 00:40:59,761
[students chattering]

680
00:41:02,547 --> 00:41:04,462
[slow piano music]

681
00:41:05,593 --> 00:41:09,249
-You remember that?
-Allegro is a school
designed to infuse music

682
00:41:09,379 --> 00:41:11,469
into all areas
of the curriculum.

683
00:41:13,645 --> 00:41:16,561
[Rebecca Darling] There was
a need for more music schools

684
00:41:16,691 --> 00:41:19,694
to serve the Greater
Charleston area.

685
00:41:20,303 --> 00:41:23,176
Um, particularly those
students who don't have access

686
00:41:23,306 --> 00:41:28,486
to private music lessons
or may have the skills

687
00:41:28,616 --> 00:41:31,445
but not the means to be
able to become a musician.

688
00:41:31,576 --> 00:41:33,491
[upbeat music]

689
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,194
So the charter
was built around the idea

690
00:41:41,324 --> 00:41:45,111
that students could come
here without having to audition.

691
00:41:45,241 --> 00:41:47,940
So they don't really need
to have any prior experience,

692
00:41:48,070 --> 00:41:49,681
they just need to like music.

693
00:41:49,811 --> 00:41:51,987
During the chorus
just play the rift.

694
00:41:52,118 --> 00:41:54,163
[Rebecca Darling] We operate
on a lottery system.

695
00:41:54,294 --> 00:41:57,340
So any child in the district
has the opportunity

696
00:41:57,471 --> 00:41:59,212
to come here
and be a part of Allegro.

697
00:41:59,342 --> 00:42:00,605
[upbeat guitar music]

698
00:42:02,215 --> 00:42:04,043
[Daniel Neikirk] We take the
music component and we use that

699
00:42:04,173 --> 00:42:07,176
to engage students, draw them
into the educational process

700
00:42:07,307 --> 00:42:09,744
and use music
to teach them instead of just

701
00:42:09,875 --> 00:42:11,180
teaching them music.

702
00:42:11,311 --> 00:42:13,313
We're not training
professional musicians,

703
00:42:13,443 --> 00:42:15,010
we are training
professionals using music.

704
00:42:15,141 --> 00:42:18,536
♪ You should have came

705
00:42:18,666 --> 00:42:22,583
♪ An easy morning but things

706
00:42:23,976 --> 00:42:29,242
Fifteen percent of the kids had
experience with an instrument.

707
00:42:29,372 --> 00:42:33,159
Meaning they might
have played the violin
back in elementary school,

708
00:42:33,289 --> 00:42:36,031
but they really didn't
have an indepth understanding
of the instrument.

709
00:42:36,597 --> 00:42:40,601
Really didn't know
much of anything about music
or the fabric of music.

710
00:42:40,732 --> 00:42:42,690
So we started from point A

711
00:42:42,821 --> 00:42:45,301
in terms of
treble clef and bass clef.

712
00:42:45,432 --> 00:42:47,739
So not only do we want
reverb on our voice,

713
00:42:47,869 --> 00:42:50,611
every single instrument
is going to want reverb.

714
00:42:50,742 --> 00:42:53,266
And you're going
to hear why, okay?

715
00:42:53,701 --> 00:42:59,054
So, if I just go like this,
check, check, check, check.

716
00:42:59,489 --> 00:43:01,666
That's reverb, right, right?

717
00:43:01,796 --> 00:43:02,884
-[students laughing]
-Okay?

718
00:43:03,015 --> 00:43:04,625
What's special about this school

719
00:43:04,756 --> 00:43:07,802
is that we see them
five days a week.

720
00:43:07,933 --> 00:43:10,370
I taught at
an elementary school locally

721
00:43:10,500 --> 00:43:13,895
and I only saw those
students one time a week
for 45 minutes.

722
00:43:14,026 --> 00:43:17,682
Here, I see my students
every single day

723
00:43:17,812 --> 00:43:19,161
for an hour a day.

724
00:43:19,292 --> 00:43:21,337
So that has
given us so much leeway

725
00:43:21,468 --> 00:43:23,905
in terms of what we can study,

726
00:43:24,036 --> 00:43:25,777
the pace at which we can study.

727
00:43:25,907 --> 00:43:27,866
So the things
we've been able to accomplish

728
00:43:27,996 --> 00:43:30,608
in the past year has
been really incredible.

729
00:43:32,479 --> 00:43:34,699
I believe that
if you understand music,

730
00:43:34,829 --> 00:43:36,657
the math kind of
flows as well and vice versa.

731
00:43:36,788 --> 00:43:39,921
You can intertwine all that,
the math and the music.

732
00:43:40,052 --> 00:43:43,925
With a lot of the fractions,
the most difficult
thing for kids, fractions.

733
00:43:44,056 --> 00:43:45,797
But if they understand that,

734
00:43:45,927 --> 00:43:48,147
it seems like a
lot of kids kind of move,

735
00:43:48,277 --> 00:43:50,540
with, move through
fractions without a problem.

736
00:43:50,671 --> 00:43:53,631
So first thing,
we got to figure out a patter.

737
00:43:53,761 --> 00:43:59,506
We have this
interesting, unique concept
that other schools can't offer.

738
00:43:59,637 --> 00:44:00,986
We have a whole bunch of music

739
00:44:01,116 --> 00:44:04,076
and you can play any
instrument with private lessons.

740
00:44:04,511 --> 00:44:07,601
Uh, and you can work on anything
that you like musically.

741
00:44:07,732 --> 00:44:10,560
Work on your talent and
your strengths and improve that.

742
00:44:10,691 --> 00:44:14,608
Compared to other schools,
you know, you're kind of
just settling on a sport.

743
00:44:16,131 --> 00:44:19,265
Music affected me, I mean,
I guess when I was like
six years old.

744
00:44:19,613 --> 00:44:22,964
The first time, uh, when I
heard, it was like Jimi Hendrix

745
00:44:23,095 --> 00:44:24,923
and the Beatles and Elvis.

746
00:44:25,053 --> 00:44:27,186
And I just
wanted to play guitar.

747
00:44:27,316 --> 00:44:30,189
My dad's a guitar player,
so he gave me my first guitar,

748
00:44:30,319 --> 00:44:34,236
and I picked it up and
I was hooked from, from then on.

749
00:44:34,367 --> 00:44:36,195
You know, I couldn't put it
down, I was obsessed with it.

750
00:44:36,325 --> 00:44:38,414
So, and I turned to electric
when I was about,

751
00:44:38,980 --> 00:44:40,199
I think I was about 11 years old

752
00:44:40,329 --> 00:44:42,027
because I studied
classical for a minute,

753
00:44:42,157 --> 00:44:43,942
and it got really boring
and I just saw like

754
00:44:44,072 --> 00:44:47,119
Santana perform
and that was a turning point.

755
00:44:47,249 --> 00:44:49,643
So I picked up the electric
and never put it down.

756
00:44:49,774 --> 00:44:51,689
[upbeat rock music]

757
00:45:17,932 --> 00:45:20,761
I think it's therapy,
I think that listening to it

758
00:45:20,892 --> 00:45:23,024
is therapy,
creating it is, as well.

759
00:45:23,155 --> 00:45:27,550
Um, because it's like, you
know, you're writing your diary,

760
00:45:27,681 --> 00:45:29,248
that's like lyrics,
you know what I mean?

761
00:45:29,378 --> 00:45:30,728
So you're putting it out there,

762
00:45:30,858 --> 00:45:31,903
and other people
can relate to it.

763
00:45:32,033 --> 00:45:33,426
A song comes on the radio

764
00:45:33,556 --> 00:45:34,819
and just brings your spirits up.

765
00:45:34,949 --> 00:45:37,212
I remember when I moved out
from Philadelphia

766
00:45:37,343 --> 00:45:40,128
to Los Angeles in 1978.

767
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:44,567
Um, I packed up my stuff, I
started to drive across country

768
00:45:44,698 --> 00:45:47,048
and I hit Springsteen's
"Independence Day".

769
00:45:47,179 --> 00:45:51,096
And it, uh, and it literally was
exactly what I was doing.

770
00:45:51,226 --> 00:45:53,141
If you look at life as a movie

771
00:45:53,272 --> 00:45:57,319
and music is the soundtrack,
there's not a day that goes by

772
00:45:57,450 --> 00:45:59,757
where I am not in
the middle of doing something

773
00:46:00,888 --> 00:46:02,847
and a song pops into my head.

774
00:46:02,977 --> 00:46:04,892
[upbeat music]

775
00:46:17,383 --> 00:46:20,734
[Gabrielle Bailey] Music is
within everybody in
some type of way.

776
00:46:20,865 --> 00:46:22,780
I definitely do
believe that music

777
00:46:22,910 --> 00:46:26,609
is within every single last
person in some type of form.

778
00:46:27,610 --> 00:46:29,743
[dramatic music]

779
00:46:33,573 --> 00:46:35,880
[orchestral music]

780
00:46:37,446 --> 00:46:39,405
[Davey Yarborough] The purpose
of Duke Ellington School
of the Arts

781
00:46:39,535 --> 00:46:42,712
is to prepare young
budding artists for college.

782
00:46:42,843 --> 00:46:46,151
Gabby is a senior, so this'll be
our fourth year, uh,
working together.

783
00:46:46,281 --> 00:46:48,240
[orchestral music]

784
00:46:48,980 --> 00:46:51,809
Gabby has always been,
uh, assertive,

785
00:46:51,939 --> 00:46:53,941
so in, in her audition
when she found out

786
00:46:54,072 --> 00:46:57,205
that she really didn't
know everything that she did,

787
00:46:57,336 --> 00:46:58,816
she got, it really hurt her.

788
00:46:59,381 --> 00:47:01,514
Um, but I explained to her,
I said,

789
00:47:01,644 --> 00:47:02,994
"But that's why
you go to school. You know,

790
00:47:03,124 --> 00:47:05,213
to, you know, you'll learn,
you'll pick this up.

791
00:47:05,344 --> 00:47:07,520
Don't, you know, life's not
over, you're just getting
started."

792
00:47:07,650 --> 00:47:08,826
And she took that to heart.

793
00:47:08,956 --> 00:47:10,566
[horn blowing]

794
00:47:12,786 --> 00:47:16,007
[Gabrielle Bailey] Mostly it was
a challenge, like they basically

795
00:47:16,137 --> 00:47:18,183
treated us like we was
in college, basically.

796
00:47:18,313 --> 00:47:20,315
Like with due dates
and deadlines, and

797
00:47:20,446 --> 00:47:22,840
you had to do
this to meet up
to these expectations.

798
00:47:22,970 --> 00:47:27,018
It's kind of like
a college preparatory school,
so it's very useful.

799
00:47:27,148 --> 00:47:29,803
Even in academic side,
it's helpful in some type of way

800
00:47:29,934 --> 00:47:32,023
because even though
they give you tons and tons

801
00:47:32,153 --> 00:47:35,069
of work, it's like
that's what you're going to get
when you got to college.

802
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:36,854
[upbeat music]

803
00:47:38,072 --> 00:47:39,813
The School of Arts
is my second home.

804
00:47:39,944 --> 00:47:42,424
I'm here all day, every day.

805
00:47:42,555 --> 00:47:47,081
Even on the weekends I'm here
doing work, uh, working
on my music and

806
00:47:47,212 --> 00:47:49,997
I, I have faith
in my generation
when it comes to jazz.

807
00:47:50,128 --> 00:47:51,956
[jazz music]

808
00:47:56,047 --> 00:47:57,918
Well, basically I grew up
on jazz and gospel.

809
00:47:58,571 --> 00:48:02,880
My mom, she listens
to a lot of like blues,
like soul, jazz, a lot.

810
00:48:03,010 --> 00:48:04,925
My family is full of musicians,

811
00:48:05,056 --> 00:48:06,753
so I was kind of
like born into it.

812
00:48:06,884 --> 00:48:08,886
It was kind of
like a gift, I guess.

813
00:48:09,016 --> 00:48:11,497
♪ Good morning, heartache

814
00:48:11,627 --> 00:48:14,456
♪ You old gloomy side

815
00:48:14,587 --> 00:48:17,633
♪ Good morning, heartache

816
00:48:17,764 --> 00:48:22,073
♪ Thought we said goodbye
Last night ♪

817
00:48:22,203 --> 00:48:25,859
♪ I tossed and
Turned until it seemed ♪

818
00:48:25,990 --> 00:48:28,731
♪ You have gone

819
00:48:28,862 --> 00:48:32,735
♪ But here you are
With the dawn ♪

820
00:48:32,866 --> 00:48:34,781
[upbeat music]

821
00:48:34,912 --> 00:48:37,871
When you emphasize
math and science...

822
00:48:39,699 --> 00:48:44,051
at the expense
of music and the arts,

823
00:48:44,530 --> 00:48:50,057
what is left is
a terribly imbalanced person.

824
00:48:52,016 --> 00:48:54,235
Less means more.

825
00:48:55,671 --> 00:48:58,152
You can do all of
the slick stuff in the world,

826
00:48:58,283 --> 00:49:00,285
but if you don't know
how to do something

827
00:49:00,415 --> 00:49:03,114
organized and simple,
you're not a good musician.

828
00:49:03,244 --> 00:49:05,159
[audience cheering]

829
00:49:06,291 --> 00:49:09,990
It's like this, if you,
if you give a kid STEM research,

830
00:49:10,121 --> 00:49:12,384
in other words
you can teach them science,

831
00:49:12,514 --> 00:49:14,168
you can teach them technology,

832
00:49:14,299 --> 00:49:16,823
you can teach them math,
and anything you want,

833
00:49:16,954 --> 00:49:19,260
but if you take
arts away from that child,

834
00:49:19,391 --> 00:49:21,175
it's like you only
have a half a child.

835
00:49:21,306 --> 00:49:23,525
[Keith David] I think
music is just as academic
as anything else.

836
00:49:23,656 --> 00:49:27,965
You know, I, I'm a firm
believer in STEAM. [laughing]
Instead of STEM.

837
00:49:28,095 --> 00:49:30,358
[blues music]

838
00:49:56,602 --> 00:49:58,473
[heart beating]

839
00:49:58,604 --> 00:50:02,347
We carry with us,
two native instruments.

840
00:50:02,477 --> 00:50:05,959
The human voice or drumming
in our chest, you know.

841
00:50:06,090 --> 00:50:08,005
Because we have a hollow cavity.

842
00:50:08,135 --> 00:50:11,008
We're very natural
and able to make music.

843
00:50:11,138 --> 00:50:12,966
[upbeat music]

844
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:18,972
Artists speak to our humanity.

845
00:50:19,407 --> 00:50:24,543
And an art education
enlarges that humanity

846
00:50:24,673 --> 00:50:27,894
of what our young people
should have and possess.

847
00:50:28,286 --> 00:50:29,765
We're going to
start with attention,

848
00:50:29,896 --> 00:50:32,420
so we can show the new kids
how attention is done.

849
00:50:34,422 --> 00:50:35,902
-Drums, attention!
-[teacher clapping]

850
00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:37,295
-[drums banging]
-There you go.

851
00:50:37,425 --> 00:50:40,298
Well, I, I believe
that we have already seen

852
00:50:40,428 --> 00:50:42,735
and now we're seeing
the acceleration of

853
00:50:42,865 --> 00:50:48,132
if you look at test scores
in, in the basics, in,
in math and science,

854
00:50:48,262 --> 00:50:52,397
those kinds of things,
we've gone from being
the perennial number one,

855
00:50:52,527 --> 00:50:57,054
to literally being
in the high 20's and low 30's
across the board.

856
00:50:57,184 --> 00:51:01,319
Suzuki one said that education
isn't complete without music.

857
00:51:01,449 --> 00:51:02,972
-[teacher clapping] Attention!
-[drums banging]

858
00:51:03,103 --> 00:51:04,800
-Here we go, attention.
-[drums banging]

859
00:51:04,931 --> 00:51:08,108
[Dez Dickerson] So
the, the elimination of music,

860
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:11,416
it's not just about music and
learning to play instruments,

861
00:51:11,546 --> 00:51:16,029
it impacts intellectual
capacity and capability
across the board.

862
00:51:17,248 --> 00:51:18,466
What is music?

863
00:51:19,032 --> 00:51:21,165
There are a lot of
things to describe it,

864
00:51:21,295 --> 00:51:26,039
um, but never get down
to the real definition.

865
00:51:26,561 --> 00:51:28,781
The two words,
"Organized Sound."

866
00:51:28,911 --> 00:51:29,999
[upbeat piano music]

867
00:51:30,130 --> 00:51:31,610
[people chattering]

868
00:51:35,092 --> 00:51:37,529
She taught me about
the importance of music
education.

869
00:51:38,095 --> 00:51:40,053
It's such a wonderful thing
to teach kids.

870
00:51:40,184 --> 00:51:43,970
History, the meaning of things
in a very painless fashion.

871
00:51:44,101 --> 00:51:46,625
Rituals of courtship, so
many things come through music.

872
00:51:46,755 --> 00:51:50,411
You don't think of organized,
and, and jazz is a perfect
example of that,

873
00:51:50,542 --> 00:51:52,370
because there were saying,
"Oh, that's just spontaneous.

874
00:51:52,500 --> 00:51:56,243
There's no, no rhyme
or reason to what it is,
which is not true.

875
00:51:56,374 --> 00:51:59,028
It takes a certain dedication

876
00:51:59,159 --> 00:52:04,512
to be able to
translate it and speak well.

877
00:52:04,643 --> 00:52:06,949
[jazz music]

878
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:10,083
And often times, uh,
nobody really wants,

879
00:52:10,214 --> 00:52:14,870
like, to go back to the past
and, like, really try and see,

880
00:52:15,001 --> 00:52:16,742
oh, that's what
people were doing back then,

881
00:52:16,872 --> 00:52:20,093
maybe I can, you know, see
what they were doing back then

882
00:52:20,224 --> 00:52:22,574
that was killing, let me
add that to what I'm doing.

883
00:52:22,704 --> 00:52:25,359
Like in pop music, you can
hear like different changes

884
00:52:25,490 --> 00:52:28,362
that you probably recognize
from like, a standard jazz tune.

885
00:52:28,493 --> 00:52:29,755
You're like,
"Oh, I remember that."

886
00:52:29,885 --> 00:52:31,757
Especially with like
little licks or something

887
00:52:31,887 --> 00:52:33,889
that they play in between,
you definitely hear it.

888
00:52:34,020 --> 00:52:35,717
[upbeat music]

889
00:52:39,721 --> 00:52:42,681
It is so crucial
for us as a culture

890
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,074
to continue to fund the arts.

891
00:52:45,205 --> 00:52:47,773
And it's very disappointing,
the direction that, uh,

892
00:52:47,903 --> 00:52:52,299
many markets have treated
arts funding, uh,
as a third wheel.

893
00:52:53,996 --> 00:52:56,651
The arts and jazz,
especially is our history.

894
00:52:56,782 --> 00:52:59,654
It's our culture, you know,
what this country is all about.

895
00:53:01,003 --> 00:53:03,136
[Whoopi Goldberg] At this point
in time, we have to get together

896
00:53:03,267 --> 00:53:04,746
with whatever
schools we can find,

897
00:53:04,877 --> 00:53:07,053
who are interested
in having music and say

898
00:53:07,184 --> 00:53:10,012
let's, how do we rebuild
this into the curriculum?

899
00:53:10,665 --> 00:53:12,841
Because the teachers are there,
they want to do it

900
00:53:12,972 --> 00:53:15,496
and GoFundMe campaigns.

901
00:53:15,627 --> 00:53:19,370
And teachers, music teachers
who say this is what I need.

902
00:53:19,500 --> 00:53:23,025
You know, I'm going
to start, uh, a page that says

903
00:53:23,156 --> 00:53:25,245
if you can help me
get four trumpets

904
00:53:25,376 --> 00:53:28,683
and five pairs of drums.
It's going to, it's going
to be up to us.

905
00:53:28,814 --> 00:53:31,469
I remember taking
choir my senior year.

906
00:53:31,599 --> 00:53:33,122
I didn't give a shit
about choir,

907
00:53:33,253 --> 00:53:35,386
I just wanted to be in
a class that was in some way

908
00:53:35,516 --> 00:53:38,258
related to music.
So I could, you know,

909
00:53:39,607 --> 00:53:43,220
to sort of escape
the rest of that whole reality.
From that I took a guitar class.

910
00:53:43,350 --> 00:53:46,832
Get out there and, and, and
play what's in your heart,
sing what's in your heart.

911
00:53:46,962 --> 00:53:49,878
I mean it's, it's
waiting to come out of you.

912
00:53:50,009 --> 00:53:53,186
If you want to play guitar,
the most important thing that

913
00:53:54,143 --> 00:53:56,189
you need obviously
is the guitar.

914
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:58,670
If you want to play trumpet,
same thing, you know, so,

915
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:03,152
it is horrible that kids,
if kids have this yearning,
this desire,

916
00:54:03,588 --> 00:54:08,984
to do something and don't have
access to the, you know,
to the tool.

917
00:54:09,115 --> 00:54:11,813
I mean, imagine if no one
ever bought Stevie Wonder

918
00:54:11,944 --> 00:54:14,163
a piano and he had
no access to one.

919
00:54:14,294 --> 00:54:16,470
-[teacher] Don't be afraid.
-[student] I'm not afraid,
I just don't want to.

920
00:54:16,601 --> 00:54:19,081
Come on, there's no reason
for you not to want to.

921
00:54:19,212 --> 00:54:22,650
If you can, there's no reason.
There's no reason,
because you can.

922
00:54:23,564 --> 00:54:27,481
There's a lot of people that
can't, that want to,
that can't. You can.

923
00:54:27,612 --> 00:54:29,614
[upbeat music]

924
00:54:31,659 --> 00:54:33,400
[scatting]

925
00:54:35,184 --> 00:54:37,578
The reason I like that is
because the bassline is moving.

926
00:54:38,187 --> 00:54:40,364
And when the bassline is moving,
it gives you the opportunity

927
00:54:40,494 --> 00:54:42,540
to create stories
that exist in space.

928
00:54:42,670 --> 00:54:44,455
The process
is different for everyone.

929
00:54:44,585 --> 00:54:46,283
I, as I said, I hear it
in my head

930
00:54:46,413 --> 00:54:49,895
and put it, pick it apart
and see what happens.

931
00:54:50,025 --> 00:54:52,289
Sometimes it works,
sometimes it doesn't, you know.

932
00:54:52,419 --> 00:54:54,769
-[man scatting]
-Uh-huh.

933
00:54:56,684 --> 00:54:58,860
That's good.
Some kind of whatever,
you know what I mean?

934
00:54:58,991 --> 00:55:01,080
-[upbeat music]
-Uh-huh, uh-huh.

935
00:55:02,864 --> 00:55:04,388
[audience cheering]

936
00:55:06,477 --> 00:55:07,695
[audience member] Alright, hey.

937
00:55:21,405 --> 00:55:22,623
[audience member] Alright.

938
00:55:23,668 --> 00:55:25,452
[audience clapping]

939
00:56:00,705 --> 00:56:02,881
[man] Well, complaining
about all the different problems
we have,

940
00:56:03,011 --> 00:56:04,665
it's time that
we look at culture

941
00:56:04,796 --> 00:56:06,798
and begin to understand,
if you don't know who you are,

942
00:56:06,928 --> 00:56:09,670
you have absolutely no idea
what you're supposed
to be doing.

943
00:56:09,801 --> 00:56:11,890
To support these
education programs,

944
00:56:12,020 --> 00:56:14,196
there's nothing more
crucial than important

945
00:56:14,327 --> 00:56:17,286
to the cultural life
and the life of our nation
at this time.

946
00:56:27,993 --> 00:56:31,910
It's like if we just introduce
music and art to people,

947
00:56:32,432 --> 00:56:34,478
then it's up to
them to move forward.

948
00:56:34,608 --> 00:56:36,697
It's up to everybody
to find their own path.

949
00:56:36,828 --> 00:56:39,744
But if you don't
inspire people from the get go,

950
00:56:40,222 --> 00:56:42,224
uh, I think
we've lost the battle.

951
00:56:42,355 --> 00:56:47,708
Cutting back on the arts,
taking music out of the schools,

952
00:56:47,839 --> 00:56:50,668
so that those kids who
are born into circumstances

953
00:56:50,798 --> 00:56:55,107
where the schools
have been deprived of music,

954
00:56:55,716 --> 00:56:57,283
attention must be paid.

955
00:56:58,284 --> 00:57:00,417
It brought tears to my eyes.

956
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:04,159
When I was graduating high
school, I was surrounded by

957
00:57:04,290 --> 00:57:06,684
very competent people
in the arts,

958
00:57:07,075 --> 00:57:10,427
dance, visual arts,
music, acting,

959
00:57:10,557 --> 00:57:12,733
that I've known for three years.

960
00:57:12,864 --> 00:57:16,650
I graduated
with a group of people
that I've known for nine years.

961
00:57:17,477 --> 00:57:20,306
And there was a sense
of comradery that I saw.

962
00:57:20,437 --> 00:57:22,395
[upbeat music]

963
00:57:37,279 --> 00:57:40,369
[Gabrielle Bailey]
Here is like a second home.

964
00:57:40,500 --> 00:57:42,371
It's a centered,
it's a centered place.

965
00:57:42,502 --> 00:57:44,809
Like, I will come here,
you know, if, if I'm mad

966
00:57:44,939 --> 00:57:46,463
I will come in this room,
and I'll get it all out

967
00:57:46,593 --> 00:57:48,377
with my instrument, because
that's like the only place

968
00:57:48,508 --> 00:57:50,597
I can really do it.
At home I can't do it,

969
00:57:50,728 --> 00:57:52,947
because, you know, I have like
four other brothers and sisters.

970
00:57:53,078 --> 00:57:54,340
And they don't want
to hear all that.

971
00:57:54,471 --> 00:57:56,951
So here is like a good place to

972
00:57:57,082 --> 00:57:59,258
really, like, bring out
what you feel

973
00:57:59,388 --> 00:58:01,913
and just do whatever you
need to do to take care of you.

974
00:58:03,175 --> 00:58:06,221
I think it's a no brainer
that music funding

975
00:58:06,874 --> 00:58:10,617
for programs in schools
should be on a federal level.

976
00:58:11,226 --> 00:58:12,750
If you leave it up
to a state level,

977
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:14,491
it's just not going to get done

978
00:58:14,621 --> 00:58:16,318
because it's an easy
thing to cut.

979
00:58:16,449 --> 00:58:19,496
PBS would be cut,
Meals On Wheels would be cut,

980
00:58:19,626 --> 00:58:21,802
the National Endowment
for the Arts would be cut.

981
00:58:21,933 --> 00:58:25,066
The guy who has three
oil painting of himself
in his bathroom wants the cut

982
00:58:25,197 --> 00:58:26,720
the National
Endowment for the Arts.

983
00:58:26,851 --> 00:58:30,289
-[audience laughing] -♪ Keep smiling, keep shining

984
00:58:30,419 --> 00:58:36,600
♪ Knowing you can
Always count on me for sure ♪

985
00:58:38,471 --> 00:58:41,518
♪ That's what friends are for

986
00:58:42,170 --> 00:58:47,262
When I was coming up,
music was an automatic part
of arts in our school.

987
00:58:47,393 --> 00:58:50,178
It, it's not only music
that's been taken from us,

988
00:58:50,309 --> 00:58:55,140
all facets of art have
been just discarded. And why?

989
00:58:55,270 --> 00:58:57,708
It's a mind boggling situation,

990
00:58:57,838 --> 00:59:01,929
when in fact that's, that's a
part of our educational values

991
00:59:02,364 --> 00:59:05,542
that have just been taken
away from us. And why?

992
00:59:05,672 --> 00:59:07,065
There's really no reason.

993
00:59:07,195 --> 00:59:08,719
The question is where
do you get the instruments

994
00:59:08,849 --> 00:59:10,547
and, and you don't
know where they've been,

995
00:59:10,677 --> 00:59:13,550
so the mouthpiece on a trumpet,
you want to boil that damn thing

996
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:14,899
before you give it to your kid.

997
00:59:15,029 --> 00:59:16,770
I've had the honor
and the privilege

998
00:59:16,901 --> 00:59:19,686
to work with organizations
like Mr. Holland's Opus

999
00:59:19,817 --> 00:59:22,907
and the Mancini Foundation,
Friends of Music,

1000
00:59:23,037 --> 00:59:25,170
groups like that,
that really inspire me

1001
00:59:25,300 --> 00:59:29,304
because they gift
instruments to kids and students

1002
00:59:29,435 --> 00:59:31,002
and individuals
who really want to learn

1003
00:59:31,132 --> 00:59:33,178
who don't have the wherewithal
to get an instrument.

1004
00:59:33,308 --> 00:59:35,441
In this family, our philosophy
is you got to try

1005
00:59:35,572 --> 00:59:37,574
every instrument
until you find your grove.

1006
00:59:37,704 --> 00:59:41,055
It's just a thing
that comes out of you and I,
I think you're born with it.

1007
00:59:41,708 --> 00:59:45,277
And I think about four you go,
"Oh, I really like this."

1008
00:59:45,407 --> 00:59:48,367
And I think about about nine,
when everything
start to violate you

1009
00:59:48,497 --> 00:59:50,804
and turn you into a person
that you don't want to be,

1010
00:59:51,631 --> 00:59:54,460
you maybe even dive further
into listening

1011
00:59:54,591 --> 00:59:57,724
and, and absorbing everything
that can keep you away

1012
00:59:57,855 --> 01:00:00,074
from the things
by the time you're a teenager

1013
01:00:00,205 --> 01:00:02,729
that could destroy you,
and destroy your viewpoint,

1014
01:00:02,860 --> 01:00:04,557
because there's
so much negative feedback

1015
01:00:04,688 --> 01:00:06,994
of how you should
behave or what you should do,

1016
01:00:07,125 --> 01:00:10,519
and music for many
has been a rebellion

1017
01:00:10,998 --> 01:00:12,696
and allowed
them to have a voice.

1018
01:00:12,826 --> 01:00:15,002
They'd have nothing
if it wasn't for music.

1019
01:00:15,133 --> 01:00:17,570
[upbeat music]

1020
01:00:18,658 --> 01:00:21,139
[Mark Bryan] We are in the
Caroline Studios mobile bus

1021
01:00:21,269 --> 01:00:23,489
and we, uh, thanks to
Dennis Gallagher and STA,

1022
01:00:23,620 --> 01:00:26,579
have a space where kids
can come and make beats.

1023
01:00:26,710 --> 01:00:30,496
We can drive to you, we
can drive right to the schools,
churches, summer camps, and

1024
01:00:30,627 --> 01:00:34,761
provide a space where kids
can some to a safe environment
to make, to be creative.

1025
01:00:34,892 --> 01:00:37,764
Let's click right here.
It's been a lot of

1026
01:00:37,895 --> 01:00:40,158
low income neighborhoods uh,
that we've been able

1027
01:00:40,288 --> 01:00:42,464
to service, but we're not
limited to that. We want to,

1028
01:00:42,595 --> 01:00:44,858
uh, the, the goal for this is
to be able to reach kids,

1029
01:00:45,511 --> 01:00:49,515
of any demographic that
want to this expe-- want
to have this experience

1030
01:00:49,646 --> 01:00:52,344
and want to learn this craft.
I know when I was a teenager,

1031
01:00:52,474 --> 01:00:54,172
I would have killed
for something like this.

1032
01:00:54,302 --> 01:00:55,477
Because of that,
if that happens,

1033
01:00:55,608 --> 01:00:56,957
if you drop, drop it
in the wrong place

1034
01:00:57,088 --> 01:00:58,655
or anything like that, Apple,

1035
01:00:58,785 --> 01:01:00,526
hold down Apple and hit Z.

1036
01:01:00,657 --> 01:01:03,137
It let's them know
that this is, uh, a real craft,

1037
01:01:03,268 --> 01:01:05,836
a real profession, a real
career that you can go into

1038
01:01:05,966 --> 01:01:08,577
at, at, at a young age if you're
interested in something
like that

1039
01:01:08,708 --> 01:01:11,015
and, and you maybe have
no idea how to start,

1040
01:01:11,145 --> 01:01:12,451
this gives you a place to start.
It gives you

1041
01:01:12,581 --> 01:01:13,974
the idea of like, "Wow,

1042
01:01:14,105 --> 01:01:16,368
I can actually get in there,
make something my own,

1043
01:01:16,498 --> 01:01:18,979
I can learn to be for,
on the artist side,

1044
01:01:19,110 --> 01:01:20,720
I can learn to be
on the engineer side."

1045
01:01:20,851 --> 01:01:22,940
You can loop that right,
to what, like, what
you just played,

1046
01:01:23,070 --> 01:01:24,681
we can play that all over again.

1047
01:01:24,811 --> 01:01:27,684
I-- I don't know where else
you'd get that from at that age

1048
01:01:27,814 --> 01:01:29,294
unless your parents are working

1049
01:01:29,424 --> 01:01:30,382
for a studio or
something like that.

1050
01:01:30,512 --> 01:01:32,079
It's just hard to get a grasp

1051
01:01:32,210 --> 01:01:33,472
of how that can be
a career for you.

1052
01:01:33,602 --> 01:01:36,257
So these, we're doing
digital tracks here

1053
01:01:36,910 --> 01:01:38,651
and then, in here's
the audio booth.

1054
01:01:38,782 --> 01:01:40,609
After you've made
your digital tracks

1055
01:01:40,740 --> 01:01:42,350
in there with drums
and whatever else,

1056
01:01:42,481 --> 01:01:44,831
if you want to rap
or sing over that track,

1057
01:01:44,962 --> 01:01:46,703
you make a new track in there

1058
01:01:46,833 --> 01:01:48,226
and then you come
in here and use this mic

1059
01:01:48,356 --> 01:01:49,706
to lay those tracks down.

1060
01:01:49,836 --> 01:01:51,185
Alright, buddy, here we go.

1061
01:01:51,316 --> 01:01:52,839
[upbeat music]

1062
01:01:52,970 --> 01:01:55,059
♪ Russel Wilson
Has the victory ♪

1063
01:01:55,189 --> 01:01:57,322
♪ Everybody tell him
They discovery ♪

1064
01:01:57,452 --> 01:01:59,716
♪ South during
Mississippi University ♪

1065
01:01:59,846 --> 01:02:01,282
♪ Across the country

1066
01:02:02,893 --> 01:02:04,546
♪ He was the quarterback
Even he put that on the map ♪

1067
01:02:06,461 --> 01:02:08,289
♪ Russel Wilson had a team
Southern Mississippi
University ♪

1068
01:02:08,420 --> 01:02:10,552
[Denis] Well, actually Mark
and I were working together

1069
01:02:10,683 --> 01:02:13,294
on our own joint, uh,
uh, charities together

1070
01:02:13,425 --> 01:02:16,689
and we got together,
and he was explaining to me
what Carolina Studies did.

1071
01:02:16,820 --> 01:02:18,778
And I said to him, "Geesh,
you're going form building

1072
01:02:18,909 --> 01:02:20,737
to building, it sounds like
you need a bus to get there."

1073
01:02:20,867 --> 01:02:23,304
And he looked at me and he said,
"That's great,
how do I get a bus?"

1074
01:02:23,435 --> 01:02:27,831
We were able to get the bus,
we were able to do the build,
the initial build out for them.

1075
01:02:27,961 --> 01:02:31,356
We have a corporate
responsibility to help
p-- programs like this

1076
01:02:31,486 --> 01:02:33,750
that literally now need funding.

1077
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:36,709
So we've created an
absolutely unique opportunity

1078
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:39,016
for Mark and his team
to be able to literally go

1079
01:02:39,146 --> 01:02:42,062
to schools and have afterschool
programs for music programs.

1080
01:02:43,063 --> 01:02:45,109
[dramatic music]

1081
01:02:46,850 --> 01:02:49,853
This is their album,
Man Plans God Laughs,

1082
01:02:49,983 --> 01:02:53,682
here to slam the door
shut in Brooklyn, Public Enemy.

1083
01:02:53,813 --> 01:02:55,423
[audience cheering and clapping]

1084
01:02:57,643 --> 01:02:58,949
[performer] And many
of us by the way we act.

1085
01:02:59,079 --> 01:03:01,299
Fuck the goddamn
government, man.

1086
01:03:01,429 --> 01:03:03,301
♪ Here it is, bam

1087
01:03:03,431 --> 01:03:06,347
♪ Can you say goddam
This the dope jam ♪

1088
01:03:06,478 --> 01:03:08,523
♪ But let's define
The term called dope ♪

1089
01:03:08,654 --> 01:03:09,960
♪ And you think it mean
Funky now ♪

1090
01:03:10,090 --> 01:03:11,613
♪ No, here is a true tale

1091
01:03:11,744 --> 01:03:14,138
♪ Of the ones that deal
Are the ones that fail ♪

1092
01:03:14,268 --> 01:03:16,053
♪ Yeah, you can move
If you want to move ♪

1093
01:03:16,662 --> 01:03:17,837
♪ What it prove

1094
01:03:18,272 --> 01:03:19,708
I grew up in Hollis, Queens,

1095
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:24,061
which is, uh, a very
creative part of New York.

1096
01:03:24,191 --> 01:03:27,325
A lot of big names
come from Southern Queens.

1097
01:03:27,891 --> 01:03:30,850
We went to school in a newly
integrated series of schools

1098
01:03:30,981 --> 01:03:32,939
for elementary,
junior high, and high school.

1099
01:03:33,461 --> 01:03:35,942
The music programs
in those schools

1100
01:03:36,073 --> 01:03:39,728
were fairly thin
when we got there,

1101
01:03:39,859 --> 01:03:41,382
but there was something.

1102
01:03:43,297 --> 01:03:45,691
By the time
I graduated high school,

1103
01:03:45,822 --> 01:03:50,565
there was a, there was a clear
shift, a clear shift away
from the arts.

1104
01:03:50,696 --> 01:03:52,524
And I didn't know it
then and in retrospect

1105
01:03:52,654 --> 01:03:55,005
I realize that's when
it was starting to happen.

1106
01:03:56,745 --> 01:04:01,489
The power of music
is so astounding

1107
01:04:01,620 --> 01:04:04,666
when it's truly
connected to the right vehicle

1108
01:04:05,102 --> 01:04:08,496
that you don't want to
not give every student

1109
01:04:08,627 --> 01:04:10,063
the opportunity
to connect with it.

1110
01:04:10,542 --> 01:04:13,806
[Kristen] PS Arts was
founded 25 years ago

1111
01:04:13,937 --> 01:04:16,983
in direct response to
budget cuts, uh, in California

1112
01:04:17,114 --> 01:04:19,986
that nearly decimated
arts programs in schools.

1113
01:04:20,117 --> 01:04:23,120
I personally as a dancer,
feel like hip hop

1114
01:04:23,250 --> 01:04:27,472
is a great connector,
because there is music,
there is poetry,

1115
01:04:27,602 --> 01:04:32,956
there is politics... [laughing]
there is obviously dance.

1116
01:04:33,086 --> 01:04:35,784
So I feel like
it's a way to teach

1117
01:04:36,176 --> 01:04:38,700
from a historical
perspective and tolerance.

1118
01:04:38,831 --> 01:04:42,661
It's a way to teach all kinds
of, of different ideas

1119
01:04:42,791 --> 01:04:45,185
in the world kind of
coalesce into hip hop.

1120
01:04:45,316 --> 01:04:47,971
Mark it one time, so
you don't have to do it

1121
01:04:48,101 --> 01:04:50,016
on the ground part,
just without we can get sense

1122
01:04:50,147 --> 01:04:52,062
of the musicality,
the rhythm of it,

1123
01:04:52,192 --> 01:04:54,151
and then we'll do it
full out on the ground, okay?

1124
01:04:54,281 --> 01:04:55,892
So the class that I have today

1125
01:04:56,022 --> 01:04:57,458
is Ms. Quinn's
fourth grade class,

1126
01:04:57,589 --> 01:04:59,939
um, which has been
with me since last year.

1127
01:05:00,070 --> 01:05:02,594
They're a fun bunch
of individuals behind me

1128
01:05:02,724 --> 01:05:04,857
and we just like
to enjoy coming in,

1129
01:05:04,988 --> 01:05:06,946
doing our warmup and stretch,

1130
01:05:07,077 --> 01:05:08,208
and learning
different styles of dance

1131
01:05:09,514 --> 01:05:10,515
from contemporary
to some jazz, to hip hop.

1132
01:05:11,820 --> 01:05:13,170
In particular,
in urban schools in Los Angeles,

1133
01:05:13,648 --> 01:05:15,999
it's going to be a genre
that they're familiar with,

1134
01:05:16,129 --> 01:05:19,785
that they've heard, that
they've heard all their lives
and that they connect with.

1135
01:05:19,916 --> 01:05:22,527
And there's as you know,
we can't transform
lives without connecting.

1136
01:05:22,657 --> 01:05:23,571
[teacher] Take it down.

1137
01:05:24,398 --> 01:05:26,357
We take things for granted

1138
01:05:27,010 --> 01:05:30,013
and then when it's gone
we see, we see problems.

1139
01:05:30,709 --> 01:05:35,061
So I would say maybe
looking back into

1140
01:05:35,192 --> 01:05:39,065
when did music get
introduced into schools and why,

1141
01:05:39,196 --> 01:05:42,416
I think that might
uncover why it's out of schools.

1142
01:05:43,069 --> 01:05:45,767
At some point
someone saw a value in it,

1143
01:05:46,464 --> 01:05:48,074
and that's why
it ended up there.

1144
01:05:49,946 --> 01:05:52,600
At some point someone said
this has no value,
and that's why it's out.

1145
01:05:53,166 --> 01:05:57,736
Understanding why it's not there
is the only way you're going
to get it back in.

1146
01:05:57,866 --> 01:05:59,564
[dramatic music]

1147
01:06:02,697 --> 01:06:05,700
I think it's
incredibly important.

1148
01:06:05,831 --> 01:06:09,356
I think that when you're young,
you have, when you're a child,

1149
01:06:09,487 --> 01:06:12,925
your, your brain is so big
and you have an opportunity

1150
01:06:13,056 --> 01:06:15,232
to really become
a complete person.

1151
01:06:15,362 --> 01:06:19,627
So in America there's, you know,
been a lot of cuts
in the arts in high school.

1152
01:06:19,758 --> 01:06:24,676
And, and you know, to me,
it's so hard to conceive of

1153
01:06:24,806 --> 01:06:27,940
coming out of school
as a whole person
without having had the arts.

1154
01:06:28,506 --> 01:06:29,986
I love music so much,

1155
01:06:30,595 --> 01:06:32,466
I think I was a
musician in another life.

1156
01:06:32,901 --> 01:06:37,036
And so I am going to
be damn sure that my children

1157
01:06:37,167 --> 01:06:40,561
have a musical foundation
in their life no matter what.

1158
01:06:40,692 --> 01:06:42,302
You have to know
the language first

1159
01:06:42,433 --> 01:06:44,609
in order to know
what you're going to play.

1160
01:06:44,739 --> 01:06:47,003
Because, you know, you have to
speak the language to play it,

1161
01:06:47,133 --> 01:06:49,092
because if you just
play whatever is on the paper,

1162
01:06:49,222 --> 01:06:50,571
then you're not
really telling the story.

1163
01:06:50,702 --> 01:06:52,008
Because you're
supposed to tell a story

1164
01:06:52,138 --> 01:06:53,705
when you play your music, so.

1165
01:06:53,835 --> 01:06:56,795
When you look at Prince
or you look at Lenny Kravitz

1166
01:06:56,925 --> 01:06:58,362
and he's standing there
and he's playing the guitar

1167
01:06:58,492 --> 01:07:00,190
and he's
contorted himself because

1168
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:03,932
if he could make that
sound with his body, he would.

1169
01:07:04,063 --> 01:07:07,240
But he is making
that sound with his body
with this instrument.

1170
01:07:07,371 --> 01:07:09,634
This tool that
allows him to... [whining]

1171
01:07:09,764 --> 01:07:11,157
♪ Why don't you turn me loose

1172
01:07:11,288 --> 01:07:13,681
Talk to about the power.
[laughing]

1173
01:07:14,247 --> 01:07:17,555
I might as well talk to
you about the power of nature

1174
01:07:17,685 --> 01:07:21,211
or the power of God
or the power of, uh, living.

1175
01:07:21,341 --> 01:07:23,039
It's just what
music does to you,

1176
01:07:23,169 --> 01:07:26,564
because I think it follows
the flow of blood in your body

1177
01:07:26,694 --> 01:07:28,566
the, the way that
the ocean does.

1178
01:07:28,696 --> 01:07:31,047
You know, the tides come in
and they, you know, roll out

1179
01:07:31,177 --> 01:07:33,397
and I feel like
music does the same thing.

1180
01:07:33,527 --> 01:07:37,531
It connects to whatever,
you know, vein it is in

1181
01:07:37,662 --> 01:07:39,707
and that's what
keeps you grooving.

1182
01:07:39,838 --> 01:07:43,015
You have to have considerable
power along these lines,

1183
01:07:43,146 --> 01:07:46,497
I've learned over a long...
[chuckling] lifetime and music.

1184
01:07:46,627 --> 01:07:48,542
And they go together.
Love of country.

1185
01:07:48,977 --> 01:07:53,199
Love is music and
dance and song and laughter.

1186
01:07:53,330 --> 01:07:55,245
[gentle music]

1187
01:07:57,551 --> 01:07:59,945
I've stood... [laughing]
so many times,

1188
01:08:00,076 --> 01:08:05,037
standing behind an audience
that is about to enjoy
a belly laugh.

1189
01:08:05,168 --> 01:08:07,822
This here
is the struggle of the races.

1190
01:08:07,953 --> 01:08:10,173
Man's inhumanity to man.

1191
01:08:10,303 --> 01:08:14,133
Yet through it all,
the shiny hope
of a new brotherhood, see?

1192
01:08:14,568 --> 01:08:16,004
[audience laughing]

1193
01:08:17,876 --> 01:08:22,707
You know, When an audience
are laughing from what
I call the belly,

1194
01:08:22,837 --> 01:08:25,666
the belly laugh,
they have a tendency to come up

1195
01:08:25,797 --> 01:08:28,539
out of their chairs even,
some a little bit

1196
01:08:28,669 --> 01:08:31,629
and go forward with that laugh
and then come back.

1197
01:08:31,759 --> 01:08:33,718
[lady laughing]

1198
01:08:42,074 --> 01:08:47,384
It's a human way of, of,
uh, common appreciation

1199
01:08:47,514 --> 01:08:49,168
or love of the moment.

1200
01:08:49,299 --> 01:08:53,172
Or you know, not to
mention the joy of laughter.

1201
01:08:53,825 --> 01:08:59,787
And, uh, it's as spiritual
a moment as any

1202
01:08:59,918 --> 01:09:03,269
I have ever seen
in a church or a synagogue.

1203
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:06,185
[gentle music]

1204
01:09:06,316 --> 01:09:08,187
[upbeat music]

1205
01:09:08,318 --> 01:09:10,146
[Tony] Well, what you said
is they think,

1206
01:09:10,276 --> 01:09:12,322
they think
they want to cut the arts,

1207
01:09:12,452 --> 01:09:14,846
they should lose their
jobs for saying that.

1208
01:09:14,976 --> 01:09:16,848
You should never
take the arts away.

1209
01:09:16,978 --> 01:09:19,372
That's beyond,
that's the first thing.

1210
01:09:19,503 --> 01:09:22,636
Yeah, my father,
he had the reputation in Italy

1211
01:09:23,115 --> 01:09:26,597
of singing on
the top of a mountain

1212
01:09:26,727 --> 01:09:28,555
and the whole village
would hear him.

1213
01:09:28,686 --> 01:09:33,473
It made my brother go,
go into classical training.

1214
01:09:34,257 --> 01:09:38,304
And I felt being ten years old,
I felt a little left out,

1215
01:09:38,435 --> 01:09:41,133
you know, because he was
getting a trainer.

1216
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:45,355
Even though we were very
poor, my mother found a way

1217
01:09:45,485 --> 01:09:50,011
to get a... a teacher
and he did very well.

1218
01:09:50,142 --> 01:09:52,971
He was very successful,
but he didn't like it.

1219
01:09:53,537 --> 01:09:55,147
He didn't like being popular.

1220
01:09:55,278 --> 01:10:00,239
♪ I've got the world
On a string ♪

1221
01:10:01,632 --> 01:10:04,678
♪ I'm sitting on a rainbow

1222
01:10:06,289 --> 01:10:11,250
♪ I've got the string
Around my finger ♪

1223
01:10:14,732 --> 01:10:18,736
♪ What a world, what a life

1224
01:10:19,780 --> 01:10:23,567
♪ I'm in love

1225
01:10:24,785 --> 01:10:26,657
[interviewer] What was
the first music that you heard?

1226
01:10:27,266 --> 01:10:30,182
Um, probably something
on "Hee Haw."

1227
01:10:30,313 --> 01:10:32,097
[upbeat country music]

1228
01:10:33,403 --> 01:10:34,708
Hee, Haw.

1229
01:10:34,839 --> 01:10:37,842
Like watching TV with
my grandfather or, um...

1230
01:10:37,972 --> 01:10:41,498
[clicking tongue] whatever was
in his truck or my mother's car
at the time.

1231
01:10:41,628 --> 01:10:44,109
I remember very
vividly early impressions

1232
01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:46,329
from seeing musical
performances on "Hee Haw"

1233
01:10:46,938 --> 01:10:48,200
and watching that with him.

1234
01:10:49,723 --> 01:10:50,724
And he would say, he liked
to tell me which characters

1235
01:10:50,855 --> 01:10:53,292
were actually
playing instruments.

1236
01:10:53,423 --> 01:10:55,163
Which now I know looking
back, none of them were.

1237
01:10:55,294 --> 01:10:58,471
It was all tracks,
but, uh, everybody loves music.

1238
01:10:59,603 --> 01:11:02,258
I don't really trust
anybody that doesn't...
[laughing] you know.

1239
01:11:02,388 --> 01:11:05,522
You know, musicians don't
necessarily care about color.

1240
01:11:05,652 --> 01:11:07,524
If you have the groove,
you're in.

1241
01:11:08,002 --> 01:11:10,091
[upbeat orchestral music]

1242
01:11:16,228 --> 01:11:21,277
And it's the only thing
that unites us

1243
01:11:21,407 --> 01:11:23,757
without having to speak.

1244
01:11:24,889 --> 01:11:27,065
Because you can go
to any country

1245
01:11:27,195 --> 01:11:29,720
and hear the music
and be moved by it.

1246
01:11:30,155 --> 01:11:31,504
You don't have
to know what it says.

1247
01:11:31,635 --> 01:11:33,506
You don't need to
know what the words are.

1248
01:11:34,942 --> 01:11:38,946
I, I wasn't an athletic kid
and we didn't really have

1249
01:11:39,077 --> 01:11:40,905
very much theater to speak of.

1250
01:11:41,035 --> 01:11:45,431
But, um, the music was just
like the most fun thing.

1251
01:11:48,173 --> 01:11:52,612
That was a chance to,
um, be, be good at something

1252
01:11:52,743 --> 01:11:55,659
outside of, um, sports and math.

1253
01:11:55,789 --> 01:11:57,748
[jazz music]

1254
01:11:58,270 --> 01:12:01,055
The difference is,
if you play sports,

1255
01:12:01,404 --> 01:12:05,538
you're going to be
too old at a very young age.

1256
01:12:05,669 --> 01:12:09,629
If you play music,
you can just keep going
till you get to old to go.

1257
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:11,501
[upbeat violin music]

1258
01:12:12,110 --> 01:12:13,807
Your whole life
you can enjoy that.

1259
01:12:16,723 --> 01:12:18,377
I suppose you shouldn't
play that with a hat on.

1260
01:12:18,508 --> 01:12:20,031
-[everyone laughing]
-[man] If you can play it,
why not?

1261
01:12:20,161 --> 01:12:26,080
♪ Don't open
The door to heaven ♪

1262
01:12:26,211 --> 01:12:29,301
I never dreamed that my career

1263
01:12:29,432 --> 01:12:32,913
would last as long as it has.
It's just amazing to me.

1264
01:12:33,044 --> 01:12:35,829
♪ Don't touch me

1265
01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:41,139
♪ If you don't love me
Sweetheart ♪

1266
01:12:41,269 --> 01:12:43,271
I absolutely love what I do.

1267
01:12:43,402 --> 01:12:49,452
It's so great when
you can reach people,
and make them feel something.

1268
01:12:50,322 --> 01:12:53,020
[man] We're not different.
We're the same.

1269
01:12:53,151 --> 01:12:55,196
And the things that
motivate us and

1270
01:12:55,327 --> 01:12:58,591
move us and, and create
emotional responses,

1271
01:12:58,722 --> 01:13:01,420
if I can express my
own emotional reality,

1272
01:13:01,986 --> 01:13:05,642
I, I will touch the nerves
of many, many people,

1273
01:13:05,772 --> 01:13:09,123
because we're all essentially
working with the same stuff.

1274
01:13:09,254 --> 01:13:10,298
[man] How you been?

1275
01:13:10,429 --> 01:13:12,083
Use more of those?

1276
01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:16,957
And my mom talks
about that I was dancing
before I was walking.

1277
01:13:17,480 --> 01:13:20,874
That she things the only reason
why I stood up was to dance.

1278
01:13:21,397 --> 01:13:23,224
The first song I learned was
"Take Me Out To The Ballgame."

1279
01:13:23,355 --> 01:13:26,880
And hearing Harry Carey
sing it, you know.

1280
01:13:27,011 --> 01:13:28,534
So that was the first vocalist
I ever knew

1281
01:13:28,665 --> 01:13:30,144
was Harry Carey
at the Cubs games.

1282
01:13:30,275 --> 01:13:32,190
"The National Anthem" and
"Take Me Out To The Ballgame"

1283
01:13:32,320 --> 01:13:34,975
were songs that I just, like,
I had this big voice

1284
01:13:35,106 --> 01:13:37,587
that wanted to come out of me
and I would literally shake when
I would sing. I would be like.

1285
01:13:37,717 --> 01:13:39,545
♪ Oh, say can you see

1286
01:13:39,676 --> 01:13:42,243
And it's not just
republicans or democrats,

1287
01:13:42,374 --> 01:13:44,985
it's folks who have
no connection to the arts,

1288
01:13:45,116 --> 01:13:46,683
who don't understand
why the arts are important.

1289
01:13:46,813 --> 01:13:49,642
If I didn't have
somebody to encourage me

1290
01:13:50,121 --> 01:13:53,429
to, to play music, I wouldn't
be the same person I am today.

1291
01:13:53,559 --> 01:13:54,908
I mean, look
at my dad, you know.

1292
01:13:55,039 --> 01:13:58,434
My dad missed
four days of work in 35 years.

1293
01:13:59,130 --> 01:14:02,307
Mm-mm, there's
not a lot of money
for a high school teacher.

1294
01:14:02,438 --> 01:14:06,485
And the amount of
people that came out
of, of adults that I see now,

1295
01:14:06,616 --> 01:14:09,967
who've gone on from his classes
to become successful

1296
01:14:10,097 --> 01:14:13,492
writers, directors,
set designers,
all of these things.

1297
01:14:13,623 --> 01:14:18,323
Lighting, uh, designers...
[sniffling] they come from him
and he got paid so little.

1298
01:14:18,454 --> 01:14:20,760
These are the people who
are supposed to influence us

1299
01:14:20,891 --> 01:14:23,284
the most and
prepare us for the world

1300
01:14:23,415 --> 01:14:25,461
and they get paid so little.

1301
01:14:25,591 --> 01:14:27,680
[slow guitar strumming]

1302
01:14:42,565 --> 01:14:45,916
[Davey] When you decide that
we want to, first thing we're
going to cut in our budget

1303
01:14:46,046 --> 01:14:49,267
is going to be art
and music and phys ed,

1304
01:14:49,397 --> 01:14:52,357
which again... [stuttering]
why would you do that?

1305
01:14:52,488 --> 01:14:54,664
We're talking about
developing brains and bodies

1306
01:14:54,794 --> 01:14:57,101
and, and, and getting the fluids
to run through the body

1307
01:14:57,231 --> 01:14:58,581
and making, keeping you healthy.

1308
01:15:00,234 --> 01:15:02,846
Music connects us all because
the arts don't say no to you.

1309
01:15:03,499 --> 01:15:06,589
They say if, uh, you don't
know what you want to be,

1310
01:15:06,719 --> 01:15:10,375
try a piano, try,
try, uh, recitation,

1311
01:15:10,506 --> 01:15:13,291
try a timbale, try a drum.

1312
01:15:13,421 --> 01:15:16,250
You know, the arts say,
"Come on and try me."

1313
01:15:16,381 --> 01:15:19,471
I might be, I could be anything
you want me to be for you.

1314
01:15:20,472 --> 01:15:21,821
That's what they mean to me.

1315
01:15:21,952 --> 01:15:25,042
They are an open
invitation to change.

1316
01:15:31,788 --> 01:15:33,616
Music is incredibly healing.

1317
01:15:33,746 --> 01:15:35,313
It is a tremendous healer.

1318
01:15:35,443 --> 01:15:37,837
You know sometimes
we'll go to a Spotify,

1319
01:15:37,968 --> 01:15:40,144
SPA and relaxation channel.

1320
01:15:40,274 --> 01:15:42,450
Or you'll be laying there going,

1321
01:15:42,842 --> 01:15:47,238
"oh, my God, I need to be
taken to an ethereal place,
where Enya when I need her?"

1322
01:15:47,368 --> 01:15:49,240
Well, music is magical.

1323
01:15:49,370 --> 01:15:51,764
And, uh, when you're
communicating on stage,

1324
01:15:51,895 --> 01:15:53,026
there's a lot
of things happening.

1325
01:15:53,157 --> 01:15:55,376
There's a conversation,
uh, among

1326
01:15:55,507 --> 01:15:57,248
your band, within your band.

1327
01:15:57,378 --> 01:16:01,339
And when everything clicks,
uh, it's, it's a blast.

1328
01:16:01,731 --> 01:16:03,080
Just listen.

1329
01:16:03,210 --> 01:16:04,342
Like when I hear
some of these songs,

1330
01:16:04,472 --> 01:16:05,691
I'm like there was empty sound,

1331
01:16:05,822 --> 01:16:07,127
there was just silence,

1332
01:16:07,258 --> 01:16:09,173
and then someone
put that horn in there

1333
01:16:09,521 --> 01:16:13,612
and that piano beat, and then
like, and then like
was off the beat,

1334
01:16:13,743 --> 01:16:17,877
and then scratching the, like,
and then that suddenly became.

1335
01:16:18,008 --> 01:16:20,271
[upbeat jazz music]

1336
01:16:21,533 --> 01:16:25,145
It's, um, difficult to
maintain arts programs

1337
01:16:25,276 --> 01:16:28,932
because it's so
expensive, uh, tuition wise.

1338
01:16:29,062 --> 01:16:32,544
The cost of New York City
and housing and food
and transportation.

1339
01:16:32,675 --> 01:16:34,198
I don't really have the answer.

1340
01:16:34,328 --> 01:16:36,766
I mean, I'm in this program,
I'm directing this program,

1341
01:16:36,896 --> 01:16:40,117
I see the issues with
finance and student loans.

1342
01:16:40,639 --> 01:16:43,599
And it's, and it's,
it's way out of control.

1343
01:16:43,729 --> 01:16:45,818
[upbeat music]

1344
01:16:49,953 --> 01:16:52,477
Miles Davis was our hero.

1345
01:16:53,696 --> 01:16:56,002
Um, we didn't want to
just play with Miles Davis,

1346
01:16:56,133 --> 01:16:58,614
we want to be Miles Davis,
because he was so cool.

1347
01:16:58,744 --> 01:17:03,836
And so if this is
taken out of the schools...

1348
01:17:05,011 --> 01:17:08,667
and young people and old people

1349
01:17:08,798 --> 01:17:14,847
are not exposed to the arts,
it becomes a problem.

1350
01:17:18,024 --> 01:17:20,766
[John Burk] A music education,
I think, can help someone.

1351
01:17:20,897 --> 01:17:22,942
Well, there's been
studies that shows, that, uh,

1352
01:17:23,073 --> 01:17:26,554
it, it seems to help
mathematical abilities
and other reasoning abilities.

1353
01:17:26,685 --> 01:17:29,253
You know, for example
for a kid who's not a,

1354
01:17:29,383 --> 01:17:31,647
a great athlete,
it's another team sport.

1355
01:17:32,822 --> 01:17:35,912
And, uh, and it really is
a team sport for the most part.

1356
01:17:36,042 --> 01:17:38,610
Yeah, because the melody
is kind of like,

1357
01:17:38,741 --> 01:17:40,917
it's a lot of space and
bassline is a lot of space,

1358
01:17:41,047 --> 01:17:44,224
so you, you have a lot
of room for, for color.

1359
01:17:45,051 --> 01:17:48,707
It's got to sound, um, organic.

1360
01:17:49,186 --> 01:17:51,014
[man] This is
how the creative mind works.

1361
01:17:51,144 --> 01:17:52,668
And these are some
of the great artists

1362
01:17:52,798 --> 01:17:54,713
in the world
and this is how they think.

1363
01:17:54,844 --> 01:17:56,497
And none of them would be happy

1364
01:17:56,628 --> 01:17:58,586
if they had to
pursue another path.

1365
01:17:58,717 --> 01:18:00,240
[upbeat music]

1366
01:18:01,459 --> 01:18:04,331
[Antonio] And it's not about
selecting prodigies.

1367
01:18:04,767 --> 01:18:08,466
Uh, it's not to have
a Yo-Yo Ma at age seven

1368
01:18:08,596 --> 01:18:11,251
presented at the White House
by Leonard Bernstein.

1369
01:18:11,382 --> 01:18:14,559
Uh, it's a different,
it's a different sort of thing.

1370
01:18:14,690 --> 01:18:16,430
[dramatic music]

1371
01:18:24,961 --> 01:18:27,877
[Carl Schafer] One of the things
I do is supervise
student teachers

1372
01:18:28,007 --> 01:18:30,749
at California State
University-Fullerton.

1373
01:18:31,271 --> 01:18:34,884
Uh, this last year,
where normally there's a dozen,

1374
01:18:35,014 --> 01:18:38,148
fifteen instrumental music
student teachers,
there were three.

1375
01:18:40,498 --> 01:18:42,761
[upbeat music]

1376
01:18:51,335 --> 01:18:57,907
A good music teacher, uh,
is many way a, a hard thing
to describe.

1377
01:18:58,037 --> 01:19:00,300
There this thing we call passion

1378
01:19:00,431 --> 01:19:05,523
the, to, to share this, uh,
music with, with, uh, students.

1379
01:19:05,653 --> 01:19:08,134
-[student] It's a quarter note.
-That's a half note.

1380
01:19:08,265 --> 01:19:10,702
-[teacher] Tell him again, Joe.
-It's a half note.

1381
01:19:10,833 --> 01:19:14,358
-[teacher] How many
beats does it receive?
-It, it receives two beats.

1382
01:19:14,837 --> 01:19:16,273
So we play on one and three.

1383
01:19:16,403 --> 01:19:18,318
-[teacher] Two and four is what?
-Silence.

1384
01:19:18,449 --> 01:19:19,580
[teacher] That's
what I'm talking about.

1385
01:19:19,711 --> 01:19:20,538
[Carl Schafer] My involvement

1386
01:19:20,668 --> 01:19:23,149
with the issue of compliance

1387
01:19:23,846 --> 01:19:26,152
really began four years ago.

1388
01:19:26,283 --> 01:19:29,634
I have been working
in advocacy all my years

1389
01:19:29,765 --> 01:19:33,551
as an educator,
and the approach that I've taken

1390
01:19:33,681 --> 01:19:36,423
and, virtually,
everybody else, has been,

1391
01:19:36,554 --> 01:19:39,426
is to try and
persuade the decision makers

1392
01:19:39,557 --> 01:19:43,430
that arts are important
and should be a part
of the curriculum.

1393
01:19:43,561 --> 01:19:45,519
[jazz music]

1394
01:19:46,999 --> 01:19:51,134
Unfortunately, governing
boards throughout the state

1395
01:19:51,264 --> 01:19:55,225
have been treating the arts
as an optional
part of the curriculum.

1396
01:19:55,660 --> 01:19:58,271
What we've been doing in the,
in the Recording Academy

1397
01:19:58,402 --> 01:20:00,578
is, uh, through some of
our advocacy efforts,

1398
01:20:00,708 --> 01:20:03,494
we learn that there
is a law in California

1399
01:20:03,624 --> 01:20:07,367
that specifies that
every school in the state

1400
01:20:07,498 --> 01:20:10,066
has to have
a music education program.

1401
01:20:10,196 --> 01:20:12,242
It, it was kind of
a revelation. [laughing]

1402
01:20:12,372 --> 01:20:16,028
That, wow, here it is in
the California Education Code

1403
01:20:16,159 --> 01:20:18,770
and no one has
taken the initiative

1404
01:20:18,901 --> 01:20:22,382
to, to, uh, have
districts comply with it.

1405
01:20:22,513 --> 01:20:26,256
51050, uh, essentially says,
and I'll read it.

1406
01:20:26,386 --> 01:20:28,301
"Governing board of
every school district

1407
01:20:28,432 --> 01:20:32,610
shall enforce in its
schools the courses of study."

1408
01:20:33,872 --> 01:20:37,310
I took a look at the ed code
and it suddenly occurred to me,

1409
01:20:37,441 --> 01:20:41,227
well, wait a minute,
this is in the education code,

1410
01:20:41,358 --> 01:20:46,885
this is the law, then
why is it not being enforced?

1411
01:20:47,016 --> 01:20:50,715
My goal is that, ultimately,
all school districts

1412
01:20:50,846 --> 01:20:53,196
will comply with
the education code.

1413
01:20:53,326 --> 01:20:55,676
[dark ominous music]

1414
01:21:11,954 --> 01:21:13,869
[people chattering]

1415
01:21:15,871 --> 01:21:18,308
[man] Maybe,
we can have people do all those.

1416
01:21:18,961 --> 01:21:21,137
[Neve] Yeah, I mean, I went with
The Creative Coalition and

1417
01:21:21,267 --> 01:21:23,574
to The Capital to talk
about getting more money

1418
01:21:23,704 --> 01:21:25,576
for the National Endowment
For The Arts, and

1419
01:21:25,706 --> 01:21:27,273
keeping that money going even,
because they're talking about

1420
01:21:27,404 --> 01:21:28,884
even cutting it,
which is shocking.

1421
01:21:29,014 --> 01:21:30,624
It's crazy. I mean, it's

1422
01:21:30,755 --> 01:21:32,496
to be on The Capital
and sitting in these rooms

1423
01:21:32,626 --> 01:21:34,541
and trying to
convince politicians

1424
01:21:34,672 --> 01:21:37,153
of why the arts are important,
and then to look at the rooms

1425
01:21:37,283 --> 01:21:38,937
that we were
actually sitting in...

1426
01:21:39,764 --> 01:21:42,114
even the mosaics,
the tiles, the ceilings,

1427
01:21:42,245 --> 01:21:44,464
the paintings on the walls,
it was stunning.

1428
01:21:44,595 --> 01:21:46,597
Architecture was stunning.

1429
01:21:46,727 --> 01:21:48,816
And then to be trying
to convince these people

1430
01:21:48,947 --> 01:21:51,558
of why the arts are important
was just, just strange.

1431
01:21:51,689 --> 01:21:52,908
[upbeat music]

1432
01:21:53,038 --> 01:21:54,170
[man] On the train.

1433
01:21:54,300 --> 01:21:56,912
This is so like weird.
[laughing]

1434
01:21:57,042 --> 01:21:58,652
[people chattering]

1435
01:22:02,265 --> 01:22:04,658
[Constance Zimmer] Doesn't
everything stem from jazz?

1436
01:22:04,789 --> 01:22:07,183
You know, it's, it's
interesting because we have

1437
01:22:07,313 --> 01:22:10,969
always on in our house
at all times of the day,

1438
01:22:11,317 --> 01:22:14,755
music, jazz, classical music.

1439
01:22:14,886 --> 01:22:16,453
Because we have an eight
year-old in our house

1440
01:22:16,583 --> 01:22:19,151
and I feel like
silence is deadly.

1441
01:22:19,282 --> 01:22:21,806
-I'm like the tiny child
in the front.
-[everyone laughing]

1442
01:22:21,937 --> 01:22:23,764
[woman]
And you look good, you know.

1443
01:22:23,895 --> 01:22:25,418
[Constance] And it feels
like whenever we have

1444
01:22:25,549 --> 01:22:27,638
all of these rhythms and sounds,

1445
01:22:27,768 --> 01:22:33,078
it's, it's an incredibly easy
way to kind of get the brain

1446
01:22:33,209 --> 01:22:35,994
to engage without even
realizing it's being engaged.

1447
01:22:36,125 --> 01:22:38,127
[upbeat music]

1448
01:22:47,484 --> 01:22:50,313
Scientists are
predicting that there's probably

1449
01:22:50,443 --> 01:22:53,272
not many jobs that
can't be replicated by machines

1450
01:22:53,403 --> 01:22:56,754
in the future, except,
maybe, for the creative arts.

1451
01:22:56,884 --> 01:22:59,844
It's so uniquely human,
it's so uniquely expressive.

1452
01:22:59,975 --> 01:23:04,327
It's so embodying
what we are as individuals

1453
01:23:04,457 --> 01:23:08,418
and as a society,
and as a culture, uh,
that we have to support it.

1454
01:23:08,548 --> 01:23:12,291
Being able to see
the faces of kids that I knew

1455
01:23:12,422 --> 01:23:15,555
when I was nine,
with those red cap and gowns,

1456
01:23:15,686 --> 01:23:19,255
was a really
sentimental moment for me.

1457
01:23:19,385 --> 01:23:23,085
And it made me
think about how important
music has been in my life.

1458
01:23:23,215 --> 01:23:25,609
When I'm working and
I'm traveling, I dance.

1459
01:23:25,739 --> 01:23:27,045
I dance at night by myself.

1460
01:23:27,176 --> 01:23:29,178
I put my headphones on
and just listen to music

1461
01:23:29,308 --> 01:23:31,180
and just dance
and just be in the song.

1462
01:23:31,310 --> 01:23:32,746
I think that's what
we love about musicals,

1463
01:23:32,877 --> 01:23:34,531
it's like you
really believe like someone.

1464
01:23:34,661 --> 01:23:37,229
♪ The hills are alive
With the sound of music ♪

1465
01:23:37,360 --> 01:23:39,362
Like that's what
you would want to do
in a beautiful place like that.

1466
01:23:39,492 --> 01:23:44,802
[man] It is just
amazing to recognize and realize

1467
01:23:44,932 --> 01:23:47,718
the importance of
what that arts experience

1468
01:23:47,848 --> 01:23:49,894
does for young people.

1469
01:23:50,025 --> 01:23:52,027
[upbeat music]

1470
01:24:15,398 --> 01:24:17,748
[Deletra] I am very, very
excited about her future.

1471
01:24:17,878 --> 01:24:19,315
To my surprise, I thought

1472
01:24:19,445 --> 01:24:23,014
she was going to go into music
performance and jazz.

1473
01:24:23,145 --> 01:24:25,060
Even though
she still will do that,

1474
01:24:25,190 --> 01:24:26,844
she decided to
be a music educator.

1475
01:24:26,974 --> 01:24:29,064
She's going to get
a degree in music education.

1476
01:24:29,194 --> 01:24:32,589
I want to spread my knowledge
to the other generations.

1477
01:24:34,025 --> 01:24:37,289
They call it the universal
language for a reason, music.

1478
01:24:37,420 --> 01:24:40,118
It almost mirrors everyday life.

1479
01:24:40,249 --> 01:24:44,340
The soundtrack of my life
has been, um, a companion.

1480
01:24:44,470 --> 01:24:46,472
I have to play music
to get out of the house.

1481
01:24:46,603 --> 01:24:49,649
Music as a whole,
changes lives, it saves live.

1482
01:24:49,780 --> 01:24:53,088
I mean, people, we're getting
people off the streets.

1483
01:24:53,218 --> 01:24:56,874
Instead of choosing dark, you
know, road that
they could go down

1484
01:24:57,004 --> 01:25:02,401
they choose music. And, um,
it really, it really
changes everything.

1485
01:25:02,532 --> 01:25:06,971
Cutting funding is not just
about cutting music programs,

1486
01:25:07,102 --> 01:25:11,976
what you're doing
is you're cutting an avenue,
a voice for these kids.

1487
01:25:12,107 --> 01:25:13,325
And that, I think is tragic.

1488
01:25:13,456 --> 01:25:16,111
It's just been
a friend, and a love,

1489
01:25:16,241 --> 01:25:18,809
and a lover,
and just it gets in my body.

1490
01:25:18,939 --> 01:25:22,029
Music and art
connects all our four IDs.

1491
01:25:22,160 --> 01:25:24,380
It connects
our physical to our emotional

1492
01:25:24,510 --> 01:25:27,034
to our spiritual,
and to our intellectual.

1493
01:25:27,165 --> 01:25:28,862
And that's how it
creates inner peace.

1494
01:25:28,993 --> 01:25:30,995
The vibrations
of music does that.

1495
01:25:31,126 --> 01:25:33,693
That's the cocktail.
It's a legal drug.

1496
01:25:33,824 --> 01:25:39,873
Music transcends your life,
and it can enhance your life.

1497
01:25:40,004 --> 01:25:43,138
How is that we learn
in the first place
when we begin in life?

1498
01:25:43,268 --> 01:25:44,791
"The Alphabet Song?"

1499
01:25:44,922 --> 01:25:47,054
Did you learn your alphabet
just by reciting the letters

1500
01:25:47,185 --> 01:25:48,926
or did you
learn it through song?

1501
01:25:49,056 --> 01:25:51,668
With broad
based back city support

1502
01:25:51,798 --> 01:25:55,280
and corporate support
and district support,

1503
01:25:55,411 --> 01:25:58,718
we can give students
the education they deserve.

1504
01:25:58,849 --> 01:26:00,372
[upbeat music]

1505
01:26:02,287 --> 01:26:04,246
[Daniel Egwurube] Galileo once
said that you could
never teach a man

1506
01:26:04,376 --> 01:26:07,553
anything, you can only help
him to find it within himself.

1507
01:26:07,684 --> 01:26:11,166
And what Harmony Project
has taught me in my life,
is exactly that.

1508
01:26:12,254 --> 01:26:14,908
That young people
everywhere are ready to explode

1509
01:26:15,039 --> 01:26:16,954
by giving them
something to channel

1510
01:26:17,084 --> 01:26:19,261
that magma of creativity
out of their core

1511
01:26:19,391 --> 01:26:23,308
as you can unleash
ambition chasing initiatives
that can carry them in life.

1512
01:26:23,439 --> 01:26:25,397
[dramatic music]

1513
01:26:27,921 --> 01:26:29,967
[upbeat music]

1514
01:26:55,688 --> 01:26:58,474
And I like vinyl, because
that's what I understand.

1515
01:26:58,604 --> 01:27:02,042
And that's how I know
if I have indulged too much,

1516
01:27:02,173 --> 01:27:05,481
because my hand would shake
trying to put the needle down
on the record.

1517
01:27:05,611 --> 01:27:07,613
[upbeat music]

1518
01:27:08,701 --> 01:27:12,531
♪ Music goes round and round
Whoa ♪

1519
01:27:12,662 --> 01:27:14,229
-♪ Oh, and it comes out here
-[men laughing]

1520
01:27:14,359 --> 01:27:17,406
A, a world without
music is just Twitter.

1521
01:27:17,536 --> 01:27:19,625
[upbeat rock music]

1522
01:27:22,411 --> 01:27:24,326
Hey, I love rock and roll.

1523
01:27:24,456 --> 01:27:27,067
[upbeat jazz music]

1524
01:27:57,576 --> 01:27:58,490
♪ Yeah

1525
01:28:01,711 --> 01:28:02,625
♪ Don't say

1526
01:28:39,052 --> 01:28:40,184
♪ Oh, yeah

1527
01:28:41,751 --> 01:28:43,361
[vinyl crackling]