My Nonprofit Reviews

I teach Classical voice and general music basics at OPA. Many of Tulsa area children don’t get any music at all so OPA is here to fill in that gap.

Music influences all disciplines of learning. It influences the way the mind works and opens it to deeper thoughts and opinions. It DOES soothe the soul and helps us to understand what beauty is and what is beautiful. I have often wanted to remove all music from tv so people would see how much a few measures of music influences our mood while watching a program.

I believe strongly, that ALL kinds of music must be listened to not just Broadway of today, or Rogers and Hammerstein but Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss, Wagner, Verdi, Schubert, Webber, Elton John, Abba, Dolly Parton, and Reba. It is this to which I want to open the doors of children’s minds and I know all faculty here feel like I do and seek to reach the same goals in their part of the performing arts.

I do not seek to make my students into virtuosos. I only hope to open the doors of the music world and let them see and experience what is there.