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A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it.

A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed.

Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is

utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arduous a

training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor.

Most training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the

muscular proficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing

every day, as their vocal chords would be inadequate without controlled

muscular support. String players practice moving the fingers of the left hand up

and down, while drawing the bow to and fro with the right arm—two entirely

different movements.

Singers and instruments have to be able to get every note perfectly in tune.

Pianists are spared this particular anxiety, for the notes are already there,

waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner’s responsibility to tune the instrument

for them. But they have their own difficulties; the hammers that hit the string

have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion, and each overlapping tone has

to sound clear.

This problem of getting clear texture is one that confronts student conductors:

they have to learn to know every note of the music and how it should sound,

and they have to aim at controlling these sound with fanatical but selfless

authority.

Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledge and

understanding. Great artists are those who are so thoroughly at home in the

language of music that they can enjoy performing works written in any century.

It is commonly believed in United States that school is where people go to get

an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their

education to go to school. The distinction between schooling and education

implied by this remark is important.

Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling.

Education knows no bounds. It can take place anywhere, whether in the

shower or in the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the

formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal

learning. The agents of education can range from a revered grandparent to the

people debating politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished scientist.