OPUS 2012 Holiday Concerts

OPUS 2012 Holiday Concerts
“It’s The Most Wonderful Time” Concerts
The Compass Church, Naperville, IL
December 22, 23, and 24, 2012
Naperville Municipal Center and
DuPage Children’s Museum
December 28, 2012
Do You Know:
•The training to respond to music aesthetically, emotionally,
and intellectually translates to good decision-making and
responsible citizenship for grownups of all professions.
More than 2300 years ago, Plato said, "Music is a more potent
instrument than any other for education, and music should be
taught before anything else."
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The Compass Church in
Naperville, IL
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Awesome!
Do You Know:
•From B&O Magazine, July/August, 2000, pages 14-15, Dr.
Nancy Utterback of the Communicate Institute of Canton,
OH, has found that music study correlates positively with
character building in students: "Kids who are involved in
orchestra activities stay out of trouble. They realize the effect
they have others. They feel good about themselves, which is
reflected in their character."
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Amazing!
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Do You Know:
•From Parade Magazine, June 14, 1998, pages 14-15: "There's
an overlap in the brain mechanism --in the neurons used to
process music, language, mathematics, and abstract
reasoning," says Dr. Mark Tramo, a neuroscientist at Harvard
Medical School. "We believe that a handful of neural codes is
used by the brain, so exercising the brain through music
strengthens other cognitive skills."
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Max Solo!
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Do You Know:
• From College Board data: “Participation in instrumental music
correlates with significantly higher SAT scores in every year that
was studied since 1969. In 1991, the national average SAT score
was 896, while music students' scores averaged 962.”
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Incredible!
Do You Know:
•As Albert Einstein said regarding his Theory of Relativity, "It
occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force
behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical
perception."
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Fabulous!
Naperville
Municipal
Center
December 28, 2012
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Do You Know:
Newsweek Special Fall/Winter 2000 Edition, page 28: “Neuroscientists led by Gordon Shaw of the Univ. of California,
Irvine…. 2nd grader pianists from a poor district improved their
scores to those of 4th graders from an affluent one." The 3- to
5-year olds who received six months of piano lessons improved
significantly in spatial-temporal reasoning compared with kids
who received either singing lessons, computer lessons or no
extras. Such effects are even more pronounced in older kids.
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Mayor George Pradel
Listening to Amazing!
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Awesome!
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Incredible!
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Young Musicians with Naperville
Mayor George Pradel
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Fabulous!
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DuPage
Children’s
Museum
December 28, 2012
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Do You Know:
•CBS 60 Minutes on 11/19/00: “The idea that sports help build
character through hard work, discipline and teamwork is the
same that can be achieved from playing classical music in an
orchestra.” “Orchestra is a community. Its essence is in
collaboration.” "In one of the largest programs of its kind,
Venezuela is building good citizens by promoting classical
orchestras for thousands of children, ages 2 to 18." Over
110,000 kids involved. Ed Bradley reports and Harry Radliffe
II is the producer.
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CELEBRATE!
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So this is Christmas
Here is what we have done
Another year over
A new one just begun
Have a blessed 2013!
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