Meaning of loss of PAM

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It’s one thing to take lessons from a music instructor.

It’s quite another to attend a school that can prepare a student for a career in music. If PAM’s doors close, this community will lose that type of instruction and preparation for its youth, not to mention the group classes, seminars, and festivals, the camraderie and friendships developed between students and faculty.

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  1. Anonymous

    Thank you for that note. As a teacher, I’ve always tried to help my students and their parents see that studying music is not just preparing for a performance… Studying music fortifies life-skills of hard work, determination, team work, independent thinking, listening, self-expression, responsiveness, etc. It stimulates a part of the brain and ignites a part of the soul that is often neglected. Kind notes like yours remind me of that impact.

  2. Anonymous

    The leadership of PAM brought this on themselves by failing to recognize that music instruction is not only an art – it is also a business. Also, only a small percentage of music students are preparing for a career in music.

    For those preparing for a career in music, Millersville University has a preparatory music department from pre-school age through high school. The same is true of Elizabethtown College. These institutions have music faculty members every bit as qualified as those on the PAM faculty.

    One of PAM’s mistakes was to consider every child taking up a musical instrument as a future concert artist. It has been proven that music education has many benefits beyond performance. A well-rounded music education prepares students for success regardless of later vocational choices.

    Music education and performance of a very high caliber will go on after PAM closes, just as it was before PAM came on the scene.

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