Lower School Music Teacher Pens Book About Musicality
Adding another chapter to an accomplished career, Lower School music teacher Sara Zur published her first book, Unmusical: Redefining Musicality in a Disconnected World, in May. Using her experience teaching children across the globe and right here at BB&N, Sara offers a more inclusive approach to music education.
“If you’ve ever said, ‘I’m not musical,’ it’s time to rewrite the score,” Zur writes as the crux of the book. Using experiences from people across the globe and groundbreaking research, Zur explores the innate human ability to make music.
As a teacher of children ages four to eight, she notes that many adults cite a defining moment of criticism from that age that taught young musicians to reject music. Zur digs into these moments using experience and research to discover how musical ability forms and why many people believe they aren’t musical.
From “a Palestinian violist whose playing gave him a reason to live, or a group of Boston graffiti artists rescued from gang life by art and hip-hop,” follow these musicians and many more as Zur examines how to embrace musicality in every person.
As Zur says, “Music powerfully connects us to what is meaningful in our lives, and we all have the ability to access it.”
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