Why music....

It is such a good day when someone says for you what you know to already be true.  Watch this...

Again it is the organic nature of music as language (see earlier post with Victor Wooten), and why we need it in our schools but also in all of our lives.
 
The information below about Doug Goodkin was taken from the Tedx YouTube site.  Here's the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKZAfDcU6BQ

Published on Apr 4, 2013
Doug Goodkin is an internationally recognized teacher of Orff Schulwerk, a dynamic approach to music education. He is currently in his 38th year at The San Francisco School, teaching children between three years old and eighth grade. He also has trained teachers having in 39 countries worldwide. teaches regularly at The Orff Institut in Salzburg, directs The San Francisco Orff Certification Course and teaches his own course on Jazz and Orff Schulwerk throughout the world. He is the author of eight books and has an ongoing blog titled "Confessions of a Traveling Music Teacher." Doug is particularly known for connecting the principles of Orff Schulwerk to a wider world of practices and ideas—jazz, world music, poetry, school community-building, brain research, human health and culture, social justice and more. His work has been described as " a long, earnest and continuing struggle to present music of integrity in a way that affirms our collective humanity. http://www.douggoodkin.com/