A Nice Description

Dalouge Smith's blog, Dog Days, focuses on arts advocacy and is sponsored by ArtsJournal. In the past few posts, he has spent much discussion on the NEA conference call I mentioned in my last post.

The part of Smith's blog that I have decided to comment on now, though, is not about the conference call. The article titled, "The art of competetiveness," linked in the blog was written by Smith for the San Diego Union Tribune; (Smith is the President of the San Diego Youth Symphony and is active in the arts coalition in the area).

In the article, Smith references to a book by Daniel Pink entitled, "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers will Rule in the Future." For the sake of my next paper, perhaps there are other articles that reference the same book. Even if there isn't, the summarization of the article implies that students need music education in order to develop competetive skills that will aid them in life, which is not an uncommon topic amongst music education advocates. In the article, Pink's points are reitterated by Smith--that music develops students into hard-working yet passionate artists.

I look forward to writing about the scholars, who are currently dazzling me with their passionate lectures and devotion to education, but also gain from their experience. I am excited to explore scholarship in this essay--and to do so when speaking about music is even better!