Maxwell Mini Music

Told you can’t sing? Nonsense. Told music isn’t for you? Nonsense. Told it’s too late to learn an instrument? Nonsense. It’s all nonsense. You can sing, music is for you, it’s never too late to learn an instrument, and your love of music is yours. Anything else is nonsense.

Why do pupils tend to gravitate towards the Music Department before, during, and after school? Because it’s their physical, mental, and emotional safe space. Music helps them connect with others, and express themselves, in such a unique way. Music nurtures health and well-being.

The Music Department is an alternate universe where pupils are often unrecognisable from who they are outside of it. The shy become confident. The agitated become calm. The lonely become included. The quiet become heard. And the lost become found. Music reveals the real child.

Young children when they’re told that they get to play musical instruments.

Making music is just as exciting for a 10-month old as it is for a 10-yr old, or a 20-yr old, or a 30-yr old, or a 40-yr old, or a 50-yr old, or a 60-yr old, or a 70-yr old, or an 80-yr old, or a 90-yr old. If you want to connect and inspire a community, you let them make music.

When you see children lose themselves in music, who then come out the other side having found a richer version of themselves, you really do come to know the importance of music in our schools.

Singing certainly adds to the atmosphere of a sporting event. It also adds to the atmosphere of a singing event. I hope singing can once again occur at singing events, just as it can already occur at sporting events.