Don T Cry Research Paper
TEENAGERS: CLASSICAL MUSIC YOUR CHILDREN SHOULD KNOW (AND WILL ENJOY!)
Many parents, when faced with the teenage years and teenage musical tastes, buy their child a headset and hope that their child’s hearing will survive the next ten years. (The generation gap can often be measured in decibels!) And yet, while schools provide the counterbalance to popular reading matter with good literature and a talkshow view of contemporary society with courses on history and current events, it is left to parents to provide the counterbalance to popular culture. The trick is how to protect your child from being the class “dork” at the age of fifteen and at the same time make certain that he/she is not ridiculed as the class dunce the first week at college …show more content…
Pinafore and/or Pirates of Penzance Bernstein, West Side Story , on Columbia Records Showing young people videos in advance is always helpful. It allows them to stop and ask questions and/or take a break when their interest wanes. There are three things to remember. First, the above constitutes five or six years of listening, so don’t feel that it all has to be done in the next six weeks. Second, precisely because your child is a teenager, listening to classical music should be a joint experience, one where you take the initiative and turn it on and, hopefully, one that he/she will listen to after you have done so. Third, remember that, just as few teenagers can withstand the peer pressure to admit that they like classical music, most would be equally mortified if a professor or college senior looked at them the first week of freshman classes and called them culturally illiterate. Classical music has endured, as have paintings by Michelangelo and da Vinci, Rembrandt and van Gogh because they offer countless new insights every time one encounters these works. Conductors go to concerts and museum directors walk the halls of museums because the music and art are different every time they view it. Some would have our teenagers listen to Mozart to improve brain pathways, some to score well on college exams, but as a parent you are opening the door to a lifetime of kaleidoscopic encounters with the
Many parents, when faced with the teenage years and teenage musical tastes, buy their child a headset and hope that their child’s hearing will survive the next ten years. (The generation gap can often be measured in decibels!) And yet, while schools provide the counterbalance to popular reading matter with good literature and a talkshow view of contemporary society with courses on history and current events, it is left to parents to provide the counterbalance to popular culture. The trick is how to protect your child from being the class “dork” at the age of fifteen and at the same time make certain that he/she is not ridiculed as the class dunce the first week at college …show more content…
Pinafore and/or Pirates of Penzance Bernstein, West Side Story , on Columbia Records Showing young people videos in advance is always helpful. It allows them to stop and ask questions and/or take a break when their interest wanes. There are three things to remember. First, the above constitutes five or six years of listening, so don’t feel that it all has to be done in the next six weeks. Second, precisely because your child is a teenager, listening to classical music should be a joint experience, one where you take the initiative and turn it on and, hopefully, one that he/she will listen to after you have done so. Third, remember that, just as few teenagers can withstand the peer pressure to admit that they like classical music, most would be equally mortified if a professor or college senior looked at them the first week of freshman classes and called them culturally illiterate. Classical music has endured, as have paintings by Michelangelo and da Vinci, Rembrandt and van Gogh because they offer countless new insights every time one encounters these works. Conductors go to concerts and museum directors walk the halls of museums because the music and art are different every time they view it. Some would have our teenagers listen to Mozart to improve brain pathways, some to score well on college exams, but as a parent you are opening the door to a lifetime of kaleidoscopic encounters with the