LINKS

SAI National Website

SAI Beta B Province Page

SAI Alumnae Association Resources A section that helps alumnae stay in touch after graduation

Music Education Madness Another great source for new teachers

American Music Resource Website Reference site of Western music with search engine

Index of Native American Music Resources on the Internet Native American resources with search engine

Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra Website

A few musical historical facts about Indiana...

Elkhart, Indiana is the band instrument capitol of the World.
The singing McGuire Sisters spent their childhood summers at the Church of God Campground in Anderson,Indiana.
Frank Sinatra first sang with the Tommy Dorsey band at the Lyric Theater in Indianapolis.
John Mellancamp is a Hoosier and resides in Bloomington, Indiana.
The Jackson Five are from Indiana as well as 'SuperFan' Russ McLeod.

Some more fun facts about music...

A grand piano can be played faster than an upright (spinet) piano.

There are 6 versions of Franz Schubert's "Die Forelle" ("The Trout"), simply because when friends asked him for copies of the song, he wrote out new copies to the best he could remember at the time.

Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.

Please read this...! If spreading joy isn't reason enough to learn music, here are some compelling facts about the importance of music education!   “Source: MENC—The National Association for Music Education "Music Education Facts and Figures" 2002".

Exerpts:

In the Kindergarten classes of the school district of Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin, children who were given music instruction scored 48 percent higher on spatial-temporal skill tests than those who did not receive music training. — Rauscher, F.H., and Zupan, M.A. (1999). Classroom keyboard instruction improves kindergarten children's spatial-temporal performance: A field study. Manuscript in press, Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

“The nation’s top business executives agree that arts education programs can help repair weaknesses in American education and better prepare workers for the 21st century.”— “The Changing Workplace is Changing Our View of Education.” Business Week, October 1996.

The very best engineers and technical designers in the Silicon Valley industry are, nearly without exception, practicing musicians. — Grant Venerable, "The Paradox of the Silicon Savior," as reported in "The Case for Sequential Music Education in the Core Curriculum of the Public Schools," The Center for the Arts in the Basic Curriculum, New York, 1989