Making the world a better place through providing creative outlets for students who value artistic endeavors.
I'd like to meet:
~ Students who are studying or are interested in studying music or the music business.
~ Musicians who are interested in mentoring students.
~ Other non-profit organizations, particularly those that are improving their communities through arts and music education and programs.
Music:
Any and all, but here are some of our favorite videos:
Our Achieving Through Music students
"World on Fire" by Sarah McLachlan
"Imagine" by AfroReggae
"Acid Rain" by LUCE
"If Everyone Cared" by Nickelback
"Beautiful Girl" by INXS
"Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day, set to Katrina footage
"The Saints are Coming" by U2 and Green Day at the Superdome
Stop the Nuclear Bailout
"Why Don't You and I" by Santana with Alex Band, shot in Golden Gate Park!
Otters in Love
Last but not least, this trio:
50 Cent & The Symphony
~ Behind the Scenes: Trombonist Incident
~ Behind the Scenes: Bootlegger Incident
Movies:
Favela Rising
Tocar Y Luchar
Ballou
August Rush
Before the Music Dies
Class Act
Drumline
Freedom Writers
Green Day: Bullet in a Bible
Mad Hot Ballroom
Mr. Holland's Opus
Music and Lyrics
Music From the Inside Out
Music of the Heart
Rehearsing a Dream
Rock School
School of Rock
Some Kind of Monster
Stomp the Yard
Together (He ni zai yi qi)
Television:
KQED's Spark (San Francisco)
HBO's Flight of the Conchords
Radio:
Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me
Books:
The Mozart Effect
Musicophilia
Heroes:
OUR FAVORITE QUOTES:
"A world of light and love is possible when we are willing to open our hearts to the brilliance of divinity in humanity. May 2007 bring all of us the spirit of ubuntu ~ wholeness and compassion."
~Deborah & Carlos Santana's holiday card
"One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations."
~John Coltrane
"When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance."
~Marianne Williamson
"I started to think about using music as an instrument of change. Through music, we changed our reality."
~Anderson Sa of
AfroReggae / Favela Rising
"Parents, put your children in art! There is an identity theft going on in this country now, and I'm not talking about credit cards ~ I'm talking about the psyche. One way to alleviate that is through art."
~ Alonzo King
"To meet our energy challenge requires the most important energy of all ~ human creativity. That's the real prize."
Daniel Yergin
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
~Mozart
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. I get the most joy in life out of music.â€
~Albert Einstein
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
~Plato
"A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field."
~Anna Nalick
"Patience is a virtue, life is a waiting game. Peace must be nurtured, and all the money in the world can buy you nothing."
~Corinne Bailey Rae
"There's been a time for war, a time for strife, a time set aside for everything under the sun. We must now set aside a time for love."
~Stevie Wonder
"The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit."
~Herbie Hancock
"This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals."
~Wynton Marsalis
"To understand the heart and soul of music, to earn the right to hear it, you must respect and honor the culture that creates it."
~Mickey Hart on ethnomusicology
"Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in school, students have the opportunity to build on theses skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective."
~Bill Clinton
"I believe that the day will come when all God's children, from bass black to treble white, will be significant on the constitution's keyboards."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
San Francisco, 1956
"Life can be a pretty tough session to work on, but I'm grateful to my employer for getting me the gig." ~Brett Myers
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
~Eleanor Roosevelt
"Joy is a form of protest."
~Burning Man T-shirt
"Do or do not. There is no try!"
~Yoda, Jedi Master
"I'll show you how it's enough.
Go up on the roof at night
in this city of the soul.
Let everyone climb on their roofs
and sing their notes!
Sing loud!"
~Rumi
