Monday, March 21, 2005

ROLL OVER, BEETHOVEN -- THESE LITTLE KIDS WANT TO ROCK OUT

"Besides the obvious budget cuts, Wish believes that a big reason kids don't learn music in school is because they associate "educational" music -- classical and marching -- as being kind of boring.

"I believe it's better to let them get to the good stuff first, as opposed to being confined to 17 years of classical piano," Wish says.

So when students say they want to learn how to play Shaggy, Ricky Martin or Britney Spears, Wish makes a trip to iTunes and invariably comes back with just three necessary chords. "




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