Something nice for a change...

[IRGuy]

Just a nice clip of a "flash mob" ..

It is nice to see these things happen once in a while!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5lbNXNn ... r_embedded

[chris pague]

Frank
Watch the body language on some of the folks?
Chris

[In Memory Walter K]

If not dubbed, they're pretty damned good!

[Bruce]

After the ATT comercial of the dude at the train station, I wanted to kill the next flash mob I saw.

But its nice to see one doing something worthwhile and not dancing to some ghetto jungle music, or beating up innocent people or robbing a store.

[dougl33]

That's fantastic. Good for them.

[Dug]

I'm amazed they knew of young people who knew how to play instruments, since just about every music program at every public school I know of in this state and most surrounding ones have been cancelled due to budget cuts...

Pretty cool for sure!

Dug

[In Memory Walter K]

Dug- I have found that an artist of any kind that has any talent, does what he does with or without the aid of a budget. You just can't contain the gift. Budgets feed the marginals, and in many cases the wannabees. Half the successful musicians and artists I know either didn't go to schools, hated them, or got thrown out. Don't mean to start a war, but it ain't money that feeds talent. Feeds your stomach, yes, but the rest is what boils in your gut. Schools have a hard time learning that, usually because those kind of people are not usually on the payroll. "Those that can, do. Those that can't teach". Not totally true, but close. I apologize if I have offended anyone, but as an ex creative director I learned that those with the greatest gifts had them before they ever enrolled in any class. In fact, they were usually a problem to teach. I predict these difficult times will spawn the birth of incredible talents just as the 1929 Depression did.
God, did I say all that? In the words of Gilda Radner, "Never mind".

[Dug]

Walter, I do agree to a point.

My next door neighbor growing up was an amazing percussion artist, not just a drummer. Most of his growth came from private coaching.

However you have to have the ability to try, find the interest, and play with it. And that is the most valuable thing a good school music program can provide. To grow the tree, bring in professionals, but to plant the seedling... could be school. Particularly if the parents don't know about the possibility of having woods.

Ya know?

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