To Click or Not To Click...
In March and April of this year two articles (Music Education Needs to Be a Click Away by David Gelernter,and a response article, Real Music Education Is Much More Than a Click Away by Shannon Kelly) caught my eye. The first article starts with a statement that most young people see music as a consumable commodity, "like toothpaste" and further, that even, putting musicians and music majors aside, Yale students just barely know who Beethoven is. The article goes on to suggest