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many community music programs are geared toward early learning that include specific
activities for pregnant mothers, infants, toddlers, and pre-school children.

I found this quote very interesting because I didnt know that there were programs geared
towards pregnant women. I knew that there were programs for infants and pre-schoolers, but this
is the first Ive heard of programs for pregnant women. I would very much like to learn more
about those programs and the science behind how they are beneficial to the child in the womb.

Numerous small-scale opportunities exist for prisoners to learn and play music There, twelve
inmates took part in Hum-ming and Drumming, and experimental, meditative, and
improvisatory musical project.

This also interested me. I had no idea community music existed in such a large context.
This is an excellent way to use music to help people, and I would love to see it in person.
Community music is much more than socialized music, it is music made specifically for people.

Music education is about access, and every Canadian has the right to a comprehensive,
sequenced, and excellent education in and through music. However, the reality is that both public
music education and CM programs fall short of this ideal.

This is frustrating to me. I very much agree that a comprehensive, sequenced, and
excellent music education should be available to the entire public, and the fact that this is often
not the reality is very sad to me. Ive seen so many high-schools with sub-par music programs
and it makes me sick when not even the entire curriculum is covered in class. On the other hand,
Ive also seen fantastic elementary school music programs that surpass some high schools.
Although some high schools have fantastic music programs, there needs to be a better balance,
and we are far from it.

I would like to ask the author more about the community music programs designed for
pregnant women. How do they help the child in the womb? Do they also help the woman to be a
better mother in some way? It is a very interesting topic to me and I would love to read more
about it. I would also like to ask what forms of community music the author has been involved in
before. It would be interesting to see how the community music programs teachers have been
involved in influenced the pedagogy of said teacher.