Welcome!
Thank you for taking the time to learn more about Sara's Music Studio! Located across from the West Middlesex School District in the lower level of Shenango Steel Buildings, Inc., Sara's Music Studio offers private instruction in piano, voice, and music theory for students of all levels and ages. For more information, please call (724) 816-6481, or email info@sarasmusicstudio.com.
Current Students
Please be sure to bookmark this webpage! This site will feature
information about recitals, festivals, and other happenings in the
studio. In progress: Student only section with access to
newsletters, free sheet music downloads, and other neat stuff. Stay
tuned!
Why Music is Important
Music is often referred to as a "universal language." It has the ability to cut across racial, cultural, social, educational, and economic barriers. Music speaks to the mind, body, and spirit of everyone.
The excerpts below come from a widely popular YouTube video. In the video, Dr. Jack Stamp, a highly regarded professor of music at Indiana University, articulates exactly why music is an important part of education in our schools.
"Music is one of the few things these students do that uses both sides of the brain. The left side of the brain is dealing with all the technical stuff. They’re reading a foreign language—so this really develops language and reading skills… They're turning something that's black and white and making it into beautiful colors... The other technical side—they’re dividing. They're doing math the whole time. Durations are all fractional... The right side of the brain is the one that develops the heart... It's the one that makes "Shenandoah" trigger some emotions in you..."
"Music demands perfection. Now we don't always get there, in fact seldom do we get there, but it's one of the few things in their lives that demands they be perfect..."
To listen to the entire clip on YouTube, Click Here
Did you know...
- Students who were exposed to music-based lessons scored a full 100% higher on fractions tests than those who learned in the conventional manner. -Neurological Research, March 15, 1999
- High school music students have been shown to hold higher grade point averages (GPA) than non-musicians in the same school. - National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988
- Middle school and high school students who participated in instrumental music performances scored significantly higher than their non-band peers in standardized tests. - University of Sarasota Study, Jeffrey Lynn Kluball; East Texas State University Study, Daryl Erick Trent
- The College Entrance Examination Board found that students in music appreciation scored 63 points higher on verbal and 44 points higher on math than students with no arts participation. - College-Bound Seniors National Report. "Profile of SAT Program Test Takers. Princeton, NJ." The College Entrance Examination Board, 2001