This wonderful Violin Wall Chart by Martin Norgaard will inspire and motivate students and teachers alike! It comes rolled and is published my Mel Bay Publications.Like Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder, blindness didn't stop Louis Braille from making music. He played the organ and invented a method of reading and writing for the blind. The accordion was popular with writers Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy.
Bernie Williams is not the only Major League Baseball player to play an instrument. Pitcher John Smoltz, Cy Young Award winner, plays the accordion. Football player, Trevor Pryce, plays for the Denver Broncos and plays the drums. Two musical basketball players are Oscar Robertson, who plays the flute, and Wayman Tisdale, who plays bass guitar and has made an album.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon and he plays the baritone horn. Two physicists who won the Nobel Prize, Albert Einstein and Donald Glaser, played violin. Einstein also played the piano. Scientists Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell each played the piano when not working on their many inventions.
Bernie Williams, a former Major League Baseball player for the New York Yankees, not only can hit home runs, but he also plays the guitar and composes his own songs. He's even made an album! There are many famous people, athletes, scientists, writers, and educators who are also musicians.
It's no surprise that playing an instrument has been scientifically linked to improved test scores, discipline, and study habits. Music is especially linked to math, specifically to patterns, fractions, and graphing. Improved test scores and study habits lead to success in school. School success leads to opportunities.
Learning an instrument can be embarked upon at any age. There are schools and music teachers who offer lessons for children and adults of any age. There are 'self-teaching' keyboards and guitars which give basic instruction at an individual pace. There are several beginning instruments for young children that give them the opportunity to explore music for fun. Who knows, today, young budding musician, tomorrow, future Nobel Prize winner!
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