The last of this series. Here, the duo perform the title tune from Lorber’s CD, “He Had a Hat.”
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Before they start, I included some comments that Bromberg shared with the audience, that everyone should hear. Children are naturally creative (as are adults). The difference is that children do not naturally stifle their creativity. Our education system does that when, citing fiscal pressures, it cuts back on such creative activities as music, dance, and theater. These avenues provide students with constructive ways to channel their energies, and develop physical acuity (balance and strength), while learning very important interpersonal skills that can not only carry them through life, but with propelling effect.
An unmotivated, disinterested, apathetic, and rebellious generation is not being born, but shaped by school systems and the adults who run them, who themselves have become creativity deficient.
The worst part of that is, society still feels the effects of our disaffected youth, and the fiscally challenged school systems remain fiscally challenged. A commitment to including creative education and programs — beyond taking field trips to the movies — and fiscal health by our education system would yield ideas and initiatives that benefit everyone, plus make our neighborhoods and communities safer and happier places to be.
We can all have a hand (and maybe a hat) in that eventuality.
To view the first video in this series, click here. To view the second, click here.
