Hello music educators:

Broad question if you have feedback -

As I think about the next school year, I want to have a guiding question that dictates the whole year and would like some help working out this idea.

I’m somewhere in the neighborhood of:

Musicians/Artists create things that ideally cause their audience to THINK, FEEL, and/or TAKE ACTION: What does a musician need to do/need to know to help the audience think, feel and/or act?

Think, feel, act — is there something else I’m not thinking of here? Another vague but somewhat powerful verb? Think/feel are pretty self-evident concepts — music history has run back the “Apollonian versus Dionysian art” debate for thousands of years. In the case of gebrauchamusik (coined by Hindemith but obvious throughout history), some music is also for specific purpose like military or ceremonial music, propaganda, documentation/storytelling (lore music, balladiers, bards, etc.)

John Ruskin also uses a similar trifecta of “the head the heart and the hand”

Without getting too far into specifics… is there something else? I want to have a relatively narrow scope for this overarching question but don’t want to be like “and I didn’t think of this before, but music is also….”

TIA for any thoughts!

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Hey all:

I have a student that cannot physically access a necessary space due to their disability/the construction of the space.

We cannot substitute the space for a new space, only convert it to be compliant.

I haven’t spoken to admin yet (although this probably should be an admin level project) — if I had to, what is my recourse to make this happen?

We are in an old building, and we have at least one student that cannot physically access the stage for performances, ceremonies, etc.

Other than physically moving the child (lifting, etc,
Which is not best practice) how does one pursue getting a modification for making a DOE space ADA compliant? This could be a lift or a ramp. I’m not an architect but I know the space and there’s a few places a lift or ramp could feasibly go.