French election: Macron promises music education from 3 months old

John Borstlap says:

But of course:

“…… l’orthophoniste Béatrice Sauvageot a souligné le pouvoir réparateur de la musique sur la plasticité cérébrale.”

Music has a profound influence on the plasticity of the brain. So, children don’t have to be musical to experience the benefits of music, either by listening regularly or by playing. But what music? Surely it should be, in the first place, art music, i.e. classical music, beginning with easily accessible types.

In Germany there are educational projects for children and youngsters with Klangkunst, to get younger generations infected with aural experiences which consist of pure noise. As we know, children do indeed like that, as they produce Klangkunst most of the time, unaware of their cultural inclinations. But music is something else, so it is to be hoped that in France, they will not follow the desastrous German example, which is an attempt to create new audiences for the genre of pure sound, so that they will get imune to music which is the competition.