Point to Ponder

So how to promote music? Good question? It is like every other thing....need to spend time planning, organizing and most of all sacrifices. One thing I don't understand is why can't musicians and teachers come together and work on their common objectives. Do away with all the differences and set a goal of promoting music together. Of course there will be always some unfair deals and the worst enemy is always we ourselves, all the jealousies and incompetent of the thing we do best i.e. music. Anyway, like it or not the world is never fair. But I believe we can improve on this uncertainty.

We always think of why we don't have enough students and blame the other teachers for grasping all our potential students. Is this really true? I don't think so. I believe each teacher has its own unique way of teaching and each student will be reacting differently to different teachers. Certain kind of students will progress very quickly under certain teachers. If the student and teacher cannot "click", no matter how good or famous the teacher is, he or she won't benefit too in the long run. Same thing goes to the different level of teaching. Each level required different skills and expertise in the method use. So it is a good question for debate when students want to find appropriate teacher.

Isn't it good if we, musicians and teachers take the lead to work together to promote at the same time setting good example in mentoring our student followers. Imagine the market, how many potential students you can have out there? All the schools and even working adults. Why do we need to fight for the same students among ourselves instead of targeting all the unexplored territories out there? To do that, we need to make the public aware of the existence of "Classical Music" and its goodness. We need to portray how important it is for the betterment of the finer quality in life that we live in. Sadly, music is always the first to "go" in drafting any educational curriculum or policy. Eventually, music will be out-caste if each of us chose to operate as an "island". Collective efforts need to be implemented in order to spear ahead this master plan if we want to see a better prospect as being a music teacher.