Virtues of music can spread —

to success in other areas

TERRACE IS gaining an incredible reputation for music and the city is developing some world class musicians, says Dennis Tupman, an adjudicator at the Pacific North West Music Festival which wrapped up on the weekend.

“T adjudicate at literally dozens of festival across the country and from an organizational and leadership stand- point this festival is second to none,’’ said Tupman,

He'd like to see the large emphasis on the arts that’s here adopted elsewhere. Music education, he explains, bas in- credible value and contributes to success in other ventures.

According ‘> recent studies, scientists have discovered that music was probably humanity’s first language — not speech, ‘‘It’s integral to the whole human experience,”’ says Tupman. ‘‘Its an essential language but we've split music off and relegated it to the arts.”

To prove the importance of music and sound, Tupman points to the origin of many common words. The word ‘person’ for example, comes from the Latin personnae meaning ‘sound through.’

Music defines who we are, interprets Tupman. The word ‘vocation’? which means a calling to enter a carecr, originally meant to find your voice, or yourself, explained Tupman. Even the words ‘heal’ and ‘health’ originally meant ‘sound well.’

Bul ever since the invention of the printing press in the 1500s, and more recently the advent of television, humanity has leaned towards the importance of the visual. ,

“The tyranny of the eye has detracted from the aspects of the ear,’’ says Tupman. And he laments thal loss, be- cause he says it’s through Ihe ear we experience and ex- press emotion.

The same philosophy is present in the schools, which he describes as visually oriented. That’s a shame, he thinks,

Six-plexers

SIX LOCAL people have been named to help with the design of a planned multi- plex in Terrace.

The advisory design com- mittee consists of Okanagan Skecna Group manager Tom Christie, NWCC direc- tor Peter Colebrook, cham- ber of commerce tourism coordinator Maria McGowan, sporting goods store manager Bob Park, electoral area C rep Tod Strachan, forests ministry manager Brian Downie. Also sitting on the com- mittee will be city planner David Trawin.

‘he main task of the com- mittee will be to make sure the multi-purpose recreation

complex will fit the needs ~ _

and desires of the com- munity, said city parks and recreation superintendent Steve Scott.

“If the project is going to belong to the people of Ter- race, the people of Terrace should have a say in how it’s designed and what it looks like in the end,’’ Scott said,

He said the group is plan- ning to gel involved at the trade fair with a booth ta gauge public opinion on the subject.

Meanwhile, another body — the project management commiltee — made up of city and regional district staff and elected representa- tives are going through 17 ditierent proposals from companies that want the job of designing the project.

Those proposals outline what the firms involved would bring to the process and what their experience is, but doesn’t set out specific ideas for designs.

The companies involved are from B.C. and Alberta, and four of them are from

Terrace,

Scott said they’re short- listing the proposals this week and expect to have a recommendation to take to council on a final choice for the April 14 city council mecting.

The design stage is ex- pected to take up to four months, after which city council and the regional dis- trict would have to settle the financing arrangements and then take the project to referendum.

MUSIC IS probably the most important education you can give your children, says music festival ad- judicator Dennis Tupman. He recommends a book called Mozart Effect, by Don Campbell. The book de- scribes how music can be used as a healing tool, and how it helped people who are autistic and dyslexic.

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because studies show that students who take part in music do better in math, reading and language development.

In particular one study at the University of Irvine in Cali- fornia showed that children who began studying music at the age of five do substantially better in spatial mathe- matics.

Even students who are not doing well in school do better once they’ve started to study music. Tupman points to a McGill University study which gave poor students free piano lessons. Teachers found those siudents improved academically and behaviourally.

’ The link continues through university, he says. Another study, just completed in January, shows thal 68 per cent of all medical doctors are musicians.

“To remove music from our daily human experience at any age is to handicap us.”

Tupman wants schools to put more emphasis on music and the soft arts. That will help put emotion and fecling back into education, he says.

“Tf education is not about love, joy, wonder and im- agination, then what is it about?’’ he wonders.

In particular Tapman dislikes the emphasis on computers in the education of young children. He thinks quite often computer education is coming at the expense of music edu- cation.

And he doesn’t understand why, since so many studies have proved the importance of music, while there are [ew trumpeting the values of computers,

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