What Does Music Instruction in the School Do for People?

SOME TWO DECADES AGO Louisiana was starting from scratch in the development of a state-wide program of music education in the schools. This article, prepared for the current yearbook of the American Association of School Administrators, does not attempt to tell the story of effort and development which led from an almost zero beginning to the present gratifying situation. Rather, it is the purpose of the brief presentation prepared by State Supervisor of Music Lloyd V. Funchess to give a picture of what, in the eyes of contemporary leaders, has resulted from the school music program through the impacts made on the lives of Louisiana people…. Another article pertaining to the school music program in a city school system (Baltimore, Maryland) also appears in the AASA Yearbook.