2. You are welcome to come and go during the show tonight, if necessary, to take pictures with Santa, get a cup of hot cocoa, etc., but please wait until the end of a song to leave or come back in.

3. Thank you to all the staff and faculty who have been so helpful and supportive in the show tonight.

4. Thank you to the parent volunteers who give so generously of their time and resources.

5. Don’t miss the “Music at Bangert” web site http://bangertmusic.tripod.com/musicatbangert/

6. After the show tonight, please let us know if you enjoyed yourself. And let us know how we can improve for coming shows.

7. Thank you for coming and Thank you for supporting your child’s Music Education. Meredith Harley Inserra Music Educator Bachelor of Music, Music Education – UNC-Greensboro Master of Music, Music Education – ECU-Greenville Postgraduate research, Ph.D. (A.B.D.) – Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland

8. Students of the arts learn to think creatively and to solve problems by imagining various solutions, rejecting outdated rules and assumptions. Questions about the arts do not have only one right answer.

9. A study of the arts provides children with an internal glimpse of other cultures and teaches them to be empathetic towards the people of these cultures. This development of compassion and empathy, as opposed to development of greed and a "me first" attitude, provides a bridge across cultural chasms that leads to respect of other races at an early age.

10. Through music study, students learn the value of sustained effort to achieve excellence and the concrete rewards of hard work.

11. Music is designated a core academic subject in the 'No Child Left Behind Act.' No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, Title IX, Part A, Sec. 9101 (11)

12. “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.... I get most joy in life out of music.” ~Albert Einstein~

13. “ Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.” ~Plato~

14. “ Music causes us to think eloquently.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

15. “ Music is what feelings sound like.” ~anonymous~

16. “Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.” ~Claude Debussy~

17. “Song is, after all, nothing more or less than the soundtrack for the human experience.” ~Thomas Hampson and Carla Maria Verdino Süllwold ~

18. “Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” ~Plato~

19. “Without music, life is a journey through a desert.” ~Pat Conroy, author~