“I propose that the reading and understanding of music be
taught to our children from the very beginning of their school life; that they
learn to participate with enthusiasm in the study of music from kindergarten
through high school. No child is tone deaf; every child has the natural ability
and desire to assimilate musical ideas and comprehend their combinations into
musical forms. Every child can be taught to read music as he or she is taught
to read words; and there is no reason why both kinds of reading cannot be
taught simultaneously. Children must receive musical instruction as naturally
as food, and with as much pleasure as they derive from a baseball game. And
this must happen from the beginning of their school lives.” – Leonard Bernstein
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