By Alice Alviani/Family Piano

Waukegan, IL. -Everyone’s back in school now. You can feel the excitement everywhere: New backpacks, books, teachers, learning new cool stuff, seeing old friends, making new friends – settling into new routines!
Most schools offer music ensembles you can join. Sign up! You will regret it the rest of your life if you don’t participate now! It is great fun and great friends, but more importantly, making music together is very elevating and a tremendous release from tension and stress. It will help you be excellent in many other areas of your life, even if you’re not great at music. BUT if you DO have a knack for music – woo hoo! When it “clicks into gear” music making will give you a “legal-happy-high” and boost to your confidence in ways that little else can!
Listen to great music, from classical to classic rock, jazz and all genres (even video games have music). Allow yourself be emotionally charged and moved by it. What inspires you to want to create music yourself? I’ve always loved singing along with the radio: Queen, CCR, Beatles, Crosby Stills & Nash and countless others. Their harmonies led to my passion for choral singing and vice-versa.

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