The Vision
The organization’s vision is to discover musically oriented boys and girls and provide them with the opportunity to gain a thorough musical education and experience the challenges, training, and the joy of belonging to a chorus of performing excellence. The exposure to fine music, performance opportunities with the area’s finest musicians and the development of a standard of excellence offers the chorus members a life-enriching experience, thus benefiting the children of the community and bringing pleasure and inspiration to the county as a whole. Supporting the arts and children’s participation in them is an important part of SRCC’s mission, thus strengthening the cultural base of the community now and in the future.
Why Should the Children Sing?
From the American Choral Directors Association
Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation, said “Music stimulates the mind, opens the eyes to inspired vision, and stirs the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. Music is the language of young children, and if civility is to be sustained, introduction to music in all its richness surely must be at the very heart of the core curriculum in every school.”
Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation, said “Music stimulates the mind, opens the eyes to inspired vision, and stirs the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. Music is the language of young children, and if civility is to be sustained, introduction to music in all its richness surely must be at the very heart of the core curriculum in every school.”
“Rebirth of arts in schools pushed.”
An article from the Sacramento Bee on the subject of music in the public schools entitled “Rebirth of arts in schools pushed.” The following are excerpts from the article:
Educators say that research is proving what they have known for years - the arts keep students interested in school, raise their self-esteem, develop their creativity and even help them perform in subjects such as math and reading.
Educators believe that the rebirth of the arts in schools is being driven by research such as linking the study of music to critical thinking skills needed for complex math.
Another analysis, by the College Board in 1995, showed the students who studied the arts for more than four years scored 59 points higher on the verbal and 44 points higher on the math sections of the SAT than students with no arts course work. They also were less likely to drop out and more likely to have a good self-image. More and more businesses, too, are saying they need workers with the creativity and problem-solving skills that the arts foster.
An article from the Sacramento Bee on the subject of music in the public schools entitled “Rebirth of arts in schools pushed.” The following are excerpts from the article:
Educators say that research is proving what they have known for years - the arts keep students interested in school, raise their self-esteem, develop their creativity and even help them perform in subjects such as math and reading.
Educators believe that the rebirth of the arts in schools is being driven by research such as linking the study of music to critical thinking skills needed for complex math.
Another analysis, by the College Board in 1995, showed the students who studied the arts for more than four years scored 59 points higher on the verbal and 44 points higher on the math sections of the SAT than students with no arts course work. They also were less likely to drop out and more likely to have a good self-image. More and more businesses, too, are saying they need workers with the creativity and problem-solving skills that the arts foster.