Why make music?   Please watch the 75+ videos below to experience the transformative power of music making!    PICK OF THE WEEK News - The Early Show Singing and music making enhance the experience of being alive! 13,500 people singing--and amazing response afterwards! President Obama. 5th graders. Boys don't sing. Prison songbirds. Virtual Choir. Crayola. Musical improv. Toddlers with parents. Bobby McFerrin. More McFerrin - music as a "language". Playing for Change. Haiti. Singing and emotion. Memphis elementary students. 6-handed piano. Older adult bands for beginners.        Music making activates more brain than does any other activity, and music and language share critical neurological connections. Neurologist Aniruddh Patel-Music and the Mind. Brain Opera/Guitar Hero. Brain development and therapy. World Science Festival--music and neurons. Did You Know? Facts about music making, brain & achievement..   Music making helps heal the brain and body.  Dr. Oz and his heart surgery patients. The singing cardiologist. Singing enables speech in stroke patient. Aphasia. Stroke patients. Brain injury. Alzheimer's. Parkinson's. Singing Yoga.   Singing boosts IgA (a disease-fighting protein) and music making enhances vitality, health, and probably longevity.  Britain's Got Talent. Young@Heart. Harmonica Man. Mayo Clinic. Songbird seniors.   Nurse anesthesiologists.   Singing is the outward manifestation of our souls.  [Singing] is not a luxury, it’s not a plug-in, it’s not a nicety, it’s not a small entertainment for lunch time for some of the children; it is every child’s birthright.  And our mission is to bring that back to our 21st-century modern communities.  That singing is not a luxury; it is our children's birthright.  Howard Goodall, National Ambassador for Singing (England) England's Sing Up - it's easier to learn through singing.    England's Sing Up - teachers and students get inspired.

Music is a natural, inborn intelligence in all humans. Baby singing with mom. Baby singing with dad. Fenway Park crowd support. Minnesota Twins players. Hey, Jude. Native American. American sacred harp singing. Polynesian. Kenyan children. Australian aboriginal song. Tuvan throat singing.   Almost everyone can learn to sing in tune and play instruments; it is learned behavior, not a special talent (unless one has a profound disability such as amusia). It's easy with Bobby McFerrin. NYC chorus. Patrick Henry Hughes. Sidney Lanier School Drumline.   Singing unites people and keeps spirit alive.  Get Up, Stand Up. President Obama sings at Civil Rights Concert 2010. We Shall Overcome history, song, and Pete Seeger's 90th birthday. The Singing Revolution. Do, Re, Mi song & dance. Public protest. March 2010 Education Protest. July 2010 BP Oil Protest Song.    Humans are the only living things that make music, although some animals imitate or respond to it. Bedtime for Puppies. Snowball, a cockatoo. Groucho, a parrot.   Music making enhances motivation, well being, and social cohesion. Chinese making music in a park. Sing-along groups.  "Keys for the City" 20 pianos on the streets. Young women in harmony. Elders' Wisdom: Children’s Song. Wizard of Oz. Fans singing U.S.A. national anthem. Canada's national anthem. Greek hockey team. Playground games. Singing with a chorus. Playing in a rock band. John Lennon Tour Bus.

Singing raises reading and math achievement. (See APC Research Results on this website.) TUNEin to READING & Minneapolis Star Tribune.  Education through Music (ETM). News Show. Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine; only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate…It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learnt to live with music more worthily.  Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.              Hungarian musician, composer, philosopher Zoltán Kodály, 1966   Start singing today!