November 2009 Blog Posts (3)

Harmony project at the White House

Great news! Please click on the link, below. And many thanks for your friendship, encouragement and support.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/009/11/michelle-obama-gives-harmony-projects-a-round-of-applause.html

We could never have achieved this level of success without the unflagging support of our partners: Los Angeles City College, the LA… Continue

Added by Chris Brown on November 25, 2009 at 1:04pm — No Comments

QMusiq Consortium in Washington Post

Washington Post Article by Valerie Strauss

Fixing music education, with Quincy Jones

I have attended countless education conferences over the years with long agendas and even longer speeches that have big goals to transform education. Of course, nothing happens when everybody goes home.

I traveled to New York today to attend a gathering of educators and musicians who are onto something that could--really--transform music education in this country. The keys: Dozens of… Continue

Added by Chris Brown on November 20, 2009 at 1:56pm — No Comments

QMusiq Consortium in the Lefsetz Letter

For those of you who haven't seen this yet...

Q told me he had to go to Israel, to meet with Putin and other heads of state. He had to fix the Palestinian crisis before he died.

Anybody else tells you a story like this and your eyes roll into the back of your head. But Quincy's on an airplane seemingly more than he's home. He's trying to exact change. And people listen to him.

He hopes they listen to him about music education. He thinks we need it. That everywhere he goes… Continue

Added by Chris Brown on November 20, 2009 at 1:55pm — No Comments