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Our wonderfully exciting world of music has greater, more significant potential and impact on our every day lives than many of us truly realize. Music is not only an art but is also a major business.
And now is the time for orchestras, concert bands, jazz bands, marching bands, percussionist, & color guards to unite and demand that our face be recognized as legitimately as our cousin industries; science, technology, business, politics, etc.
Like any of the industries mentioned earlier, our world resembles a human body; a main center that has extended limbs capable of remarkable and oftentimes MAGICAL feet’s of “Awe & Splendor!”
After years of study, it is our contention that similar to business, science, technology or politics, music has a need to communicate its physical world through “Expressive or Marketed Presentation.” And these presentations are done so with an ultimate intent.
Sometimes the intent is to learn, sometimes it’s to sell an idea or a product, sometimes it’s just about the freedom of expression, but nevertheless the intent always bares an audience.
Many of us have come to ignore the true similarities or genetic materials that link our many professional identities and by doing so, have unintentionally created more distance and even ignorance about our capability to comprehendingly communicate with one another than we realize.
And as the old saying goes.. “The road to hell was paved with good intentions.”
As best described by WEBSTER’S New Twentieth Century DICTIONARY:
“MUSIC IS THE ART AND SCIENCE OF COMBINING VOCAL OR INSTRUMENTAL SOUNDS OR TONES IN VARYING MELODY, HARMONY, RHYTHM, AND TIMBRE, ESPECIALLY SO AS TO FORM STRUCTURALLY COMPLETE AND EMOTIONALLY EXPRESSIVE COMPOSITION.”
Balancing Art with Science is one of the very reason’s why music must have legitimacy in relationship to many if not all business disciplines. And just when you want to challenge the thought, just ask yourself “would Benjamin Franklin have discovered electricity without a key or a kite?” This is just one type in the array of scenarios throughout our history that have materialized our most significant accomplishments.
TODAY is the day…. That all of us at the bandstaff.com say “Thank-You” to one of mankind’s MOST cherished discoveries: MUSIC!
TODAY is the day that we ask for full involvement/support in helping to discover the full range of this thing we call MUSIC!
TODAY is the day we unleash MUSIC’S true identity and bring new hope to it’s impending future.
By fostering the truth of our history and recognizing the depth of it’s impact to man’s everyday life will be the only way for us to stand-up with integrity for what many should look at as the ultimate lost “Kung Fu Art!”
In the immortal words of Anaiis Nin:
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage!”
Author - Randy Phillips