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Summer Music Camp 2025 Application Opens Feb. 1

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Students playing the cello

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Advantages of Music Education for Children

  1. Musical training helps develop language and reasoning
  2. A mastery of memorization
  3. Students learn to improve their work
  4. Increased coordination
  5. A sense of achievement
  6. Kids stay engaged in school
  7. Success in society
  8. Emotional development
  9. Students learn pattern recognition
  10. Better SAT scores
  11. Fine-tuned auditory skills
  12. Music builds imagination and intellectual curiosity
  13. Music can be relaxing
  14. Musical instruments can teach discipline
  15. Preparation for the creative economy
  16. Development in creative thinking
  17. Music can develop spatial intelligence
  18. Kids can learn teamwork
  19. Responsible risk-taking
  20. Better self-confidence


(from nafme.org)

Students sitting around in a circle, playing guitars, outside of a building on a sunny day.
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