Why We Are Criticized: A Music Educator's Analysis

“I HAVE READ with considerable interest William Schuman's MENC convention address, ‘The Responsibility of Music Education to Music,’ and Theodore F. Normann's reply, ‘The Responsibility of Music to Education.'” So wrote the author when he submitted this article to the Editorial Board of the Journal. His letter continued: “I congratulate you on publishing both of these thought-provoking, argumentative articles, and hope you will publish more in the same vein. While I am intensely interested Li composition and the theory and literature of music, I have also spent my entire career in music education, both in public schools and in music education departments of universities. Though I am far from complacent about the present state of school music, I speak as an ‘insider’ who believes whole-heartedly in the mission of the music educator and the fundamental principles of his work.”

Readers will be interested to know that another article, also inspired by Mr. Schuman's convention address, written by Imogene Boyle, Director of Music, Hempstead Long Island Public Schools, will be published in a subsequent issue of the Journal.