Expanding Arts and Academic Education

As I was in the waiting room of the Doctors office I came across an article CNY Health Care Newspaper called "In Good Health" . In that article I found an awful truth that justly deserves criticism and a solution that would legitimize the program into a needful subject worth keeping. A Doctor who once was a Julliard college graduate chose the medical field out of the necessity of making a living. Dr. Walter J. Kantor stated that only 1 to 2 % of Julliard graduates continues to perform in the arts 10 years after graduating which is most likely the case for many other Visual and Performing Arts majors nationally. There was a community college president who had a degree in music, a federal VESID Counselor who had a degree in music, Emeril Lagasse who had a scholarship to go for music and decided on becoming a chef, a Hospice Doctor who has a degree in music, and many proud VPA graduates who get married and work out of their field.

The upsetting thing about this is how the government can take the arts seriously helping people save the music if this field is not taking the future of these students into account. Music is more than a course to appreciate due to the fact that all around us the arts entertain us in a multi billion dollar industry that encourages customers to buy, try and learn of products advertised. The arts is a business that should be included in business schools everywhere. The fact is that many people fall in love with music, and want to do nothing but music for a living.