- Music programs for children based on Venezuela's El Sistema model have been introduced in several countries with success, but also face challenges with sustained funding support.
- Scotland had a successful music program in the 1970s-80s but it was cut due to financial pressures. Similar programs have been started in the US and New Zealand but adapting the model to new contexts remains a work in progress.
- Studies show benefits of early music education for children's cognitive development and academic achievement. The author argues for a balanced, arts-integrated approach to education to optimize child development.
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2. Scotland
In the Stirling Herald (18 Aug 2007) there was an article describing how a programme
based on âEl Sistemaâ had been introduced into the Raploch area of Stirling. However
this was not the first time such a programme had been introduced in Scotland.
Over thirty years ago and under the guidance of Winnie Dean, the most inspired music
teacher of her time, it was introduced at the now closed Bellarmine Secondary School.
It grew into one of the most successful music schemes in the UK. Many of the people
who took part are now professional musicians themselves, playing in orchestras all
over the world.
Unfortunately the scheme became an easy target for financial cutbacks. Some thought
it was outrageous to let these working class children have ideas above their station.
Others were just directly opposed to it because they had no real control. It closed in
1988.
This is the biggest danger with such schemes. They can become a political football,
mostly through petty jealousy and lack of vision, and the result is anger and
disillusionment among the benefactors of the scheme.
4. âItâs the core values that are resonating,â said Mark Churchill, artistic director of
preparatory and continuing education at the New England Conservatory of Music
in Boston.
The missionary zeal flowed freely earlier this month when dozens of music
educators, youth program administrators and others converged here for a three-day
symposium, âComposing Change: YOLA and the El Sistema Movement,â
sponsored by the L.A. Phil.
The conference was part of an ongoing effort, not to slavishly imitate every
chapter and verse of the El Sistema playbook, but to adapt some of its key ideas
and methods to a U.S. context. It concluded with Dudamel conducting the
fledgling YOLA musicians in what was billed as an open rehearsal at Walt Disney
Concert Hall, keeping a pledge heâd made months ago.
Comprising frank panel discussions, moving personal testimonies from U.S.
musicians whoâd visited and worked with El Sistema in Venezuela, and a good
deal of institutional soul-searching, the symposium was an amalgam of academic
seminar and motivational speakersâ meeting.
5. New Zealand
The following is adapted from article in the March 2011 issue of the Manukau
Courier âProject is music to kidsâears.â
Changing the lives of children is the aim of an innovative music programme
coming to south Auckland. The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra is setting up a
base in Otara for the two-year pilot programme, based on the Venezuelan model
âEl Sistemaâ.
Its original founder started the programme 35 years ago in a garage in Venezuela
when Dr. Jose Antonio Abreu got 11 kids together to play music. He believed that
communal music-making could change the path of childrenâs lives.
Auckland musician Dr. Joseph Harrop will take up his role as programme director
for the initiative at Otara Music Arts Centre. He describes El Sistema, âItâs such an
exciting project â the social and community benefits are obvious and it has music
at its heart. This is something of real national importance and I am privileged to
be playing a leading role within it.â
6. âWe know the community is very engaged with us and the centre
has the staff and facilities to support the programme,â orchestra
chief executive Barbara Glaser says.
The programmeâs âvery much inclusive of the cultureâ and sheâs
hoping it will be rolled out in other areas of Auckland and New
Zealand wide.
âThere wonât be any kids that are rejected because we donât think
they are musical,â she says.
With funding from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, the
orchestra will join with local schools, the community and support
organisations to provide instruments and mentor children in music
and orchestral performance.
7. Studies
According to the results of a study in Canada, children who take music lessons before the
age of six tend to be more intelligent than their peers.
Academics at the University of Toronto found that the IQ scores of six-year-olds who had
taken keyboard or voice lessons were, on average, three points higher than normal.
The study appears to support the Mozart Effect; a theory established in 1994 which
claimed that listening to Mozart temporarily increases problem solving abilities.
Professor Glenn Schellenberg, of the psychology department at the University of Toronto,
who led the research, said: âIt was a response to all the brouhaha about whether or not
music makes you smarter.â
In the latest study, children were recruited via a newspaper advertisement and divided into
four groups.
One group received free weekly keyboard lessons and another received free weekly singing
lessons, both at Canadaâs Royal Conservatory of Music.
8. The third group was sent to free weekly drama classes, and the remaining group received no
lessons at all.
Before the experiment began, every child underwent a three-hour IQ test. A second test nine
months later showed, as the team expected, that the IQ scores in all four groups had
increased by at least 4.3 points.
The children who had taken keyboard or voice lessons, however, scored on average, 2.7
points more than those who had taken drama lessons and no lessons.
Professor Schellenberg attributed the latest results to the skills students needed to acquire in
order to learn music. He said: âThere are so many different facets involved, such as
memorizing, expressing emotion, learning about musical intervals and chords.â
The possibility of an association between music and intelligence has interested scientists in
recent years. Previous studies have linked musical aptitude to literacy and music lessons to
mathematics achievement.
Last year, Hong Kong scientists claimed that children who took music lessons possessed
superior verbal memory skills - the ability to remember spoken words.
9. Other scientists have suggested that children who attend music lessons may have higher IQ
scores because they tend to come from families that are better educated and wealthier than
those of their peers.
This latest study is the first to feature a large number of children selected at random from a
range of backgrounds.
The phenomenon was identified by researchers who assessed the ability of test subjects to
complete four-dimensional puzzles.
They discovered that the highest scores were achieved by people who had listened to
Mozart before tackling the puzzles. The effect has since been attributed to Mozartâs
stimulation of mood.
Yesterday, the findings were supported by Londoner Melissa Sayer, the mother of five-year-
old Molly, âMolly has been taking piano lessons for one year - and she is top of her class at
school. At the end of the year she won a prize for her academic achievement, for reading
and maths. I hadnât made the association before, but it does make sense now that I think
about it.â
10. Conclusion
Countries such as Venezuela, Finland and, excepting the disastrous present policies, New
Zealand are showing that these subjects are not only crucial for balanced neurological
development, but of enormous benefit to society.
It is especially important for countries like Venezuela where there are large numbers of poor,
that it can assist, even determine, that a child from the poorest and deprived background
can realise his worth as a human being to himself and to society.
Matias Tarnopolsky, the artistic director of the New York Philharmonic, describing his own
tour of the sistema in Caracas, âIt reminded me of the reasons I went into the music world as
a profession.â
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I am of similar ilk; I know why I became an educator and what my tasks are. Although never
holding any office of any importance, I still hope to make a contribution to education
wherever anyone will listen to me.
Previously, that occurred in New Zealand and for that I am eternally grateful although what
was implemented was motivated by the desire to save money rather than a policy that would
assist children in optimising their wellbeing and learning.
11. However, I do not have any doubt that there is a way to balance and
nurture neurological development in all children so that their wellbeing and
learning is optimized and New Zealand took an important first step in that
direction.
If balanced and harmonious hemispheric development occurs you end up
with a far more fulfilled, happier and well-adjusted individual.
The benefits to society appear glaringly obvious. We can only assume that
it is not occurring because the powers that be have not received the
information necessary for optimisation.
Thanks to the internet that particular problem is easily rectifiable and we
hope to make a contribution to that process.
Crucial ingredients to the optimisation process are music, art and drama but
so are many other ingredients I could describe.
12. Having dealt with administrators in UK for 50 years (my
homeland), USA for 32 years and New Zealand for 28 years I am
optimistic for the first time in a long time that perhaps they will
examine our contributions to education; and subsequently support
and implement the policies that will produce an education in which
children will thrive and excel.
What is more important? We need to ask our politicians ad
infinitum what are their priorities - political agendas or the
wellbeing of our children?
If, for whatever reason, they do not listen then we need to be
determined to continue our protests until they do. We hope you
agree!