1. Describe your musical background.

 

2. Why is (isn’t) music the most important school subject?

 

3. What is your least favorite type of music? Why?

 

4. How would it benefit society if everyone could read music and play an instrument?

 

5. What role does a professional orchestra play in the life of a city?

 

6. Should every child be able to sing well by the end of the third grade?

 

7. How can music help children fit in socially?

 

8. In the Renaissance, all educated people were expected to be able to read music and sing part songs (one on a part) for entertainment. What is the expectation, today? Why is it different?

 

9. Should SATs include music?

 

10. Should public schools be held accountable (given or denied state/federal funding) based on student achievement in music?

 

11. What percentage of public school curricula should be devoted to music?

 

12. At what stage of education (P-5, 6-8, 9-12, college, grad school) should compulsory instruction in music cease?

 

13. What does music do for you?

 

14. What sorts of knowledge and skills (in order of importance) should every college-educated person possess?

 

15. What do you see as the biggest gap in your own education?

 

16. Describe the difference between living and merely existing from an eternal perspective.

 

17. What do you think will matter the most at the end of your life?

 

18. Describe a positive or negative event in your musical development.