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🎵 Tuesday Tune's Day #3 - John Philip Sousa 🎵 We're on post 3 of this Tuesday Tune's Day venture and since it's the 4th of July here in the states, it felt right to do this post on John Philip Sousa, the legendary "March King", whose harmonies and melodies are, in my opinion, quintessentially American. Something that I learned while researching for this post is that Sousa served in the US Marine Corps, initially as a 13-year-old 'apprentice musician' and he would later go on to transform the Marine's band into the 'premier military band', conducting & recording 60 records with the band with Columbia Records (which, according to Wikipedia, is what brought him to fame). John Philip Sousa drew inspiration for his compositions from various sources, including patriotic themes, historical events, and even natural phenomena. He often found inspiration during his travels or through conversations with others and his ability to capture the essence of his subject matter in his melodies helped his music to resonate with his audiences. Sousa's harmonies were characterized by their richness and depth, because he was able to skillfully blend various harmonic elements, including bold brass fanfares, rich woodwind passages, and vibrant percussion rhythms. In essence, he was adept at bringing out the best qualities of each instrument within the orchestra and giving it a chance to shine. A couple of takeaways for business: - Creativity Requires Diverse Experiences: Inspiration and ideas often come from a variety of life experiences, situations, conversations & events. Broaden your circle, take walks during your day, read new books/articles, and just generally try new things. It will help with your creativity. - Give everyone a voice: Sousa had a way of bringing out every 'voice' in the orchestra. That takes a lot of skill and it takes a lot of skill as a leader as well (Disclaimer, I'm not saying I have this skill in spades by writing this). You don't have to know how to 'bring out everyone's voice' even, but you can start by giving everyone a voice, listening to them, encouraging them to share, etc. In doing so, you'll end up with a far richer 'composition' (story, solution to a problem, product, etc). #TuesdayTunesday #MusicForBusiness #TeamHarmony https://lnkd.in/gvPHebYd

Last night, the Mercury Music Prize was won by a jazz group for the first time in its history. This is huge. The band that won is Ezra Collective (if you don’t know them, check them out - a blinding force of energy). As a fan of jazz (and player) myself, I’ve been backing the jazz group to win for years but always been convinced that they never will. The UK jazz scene is thriving right now and has been for a few years – so why has it taken everyone else to catch up? A lot of this is down to funding. Arts Council funding is STILL prioritising the white middle class art forms (classical music, opera, ballet etc). While these art forms shouldn’t be dismissed, it’s important to realise that the UK has a far richer arts culture outside of these and should nurture a more diverse range of projects (Arts Council have moved forwards with this but there is still much more to do). This isn’t all Arts Council’s fault though. They have a finite amount of funding from the government so they can’t fund everyone. The government has absolutely decimated the arts. The Tories do not care for the arts or arts education and if we aren’t careful, it will all but disappear. Femi’s acceptance speech last night leaned into the importance of supporting youth in music. Ezra Collective met as teenagers at Tomorrow’s Warriors (an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation) – an educational programme developing jazz musicians. It provides support and training to these musicians becoming artists and has played a big part in expanding the London jazz scene, nurturing artists such as Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Sons of Kemet and Soweto Kinch to name but a few. But it’s based in London – and as we know, the government is trying to ‘level-up’, so who knows if Tomorrow’s Warriors will be successful in funding come the next NPO round (though hopefully we may have a different government by then). Arts education enriches kids’ lives. If music hadn’t been available to me, I’m not sure I would have that much interest in school. I was lucky enough to learn two instruments, be part of orchestras, go on tour with those orchestras, play in concerts and go to lots of gigs. I remember Guildford Youth Club used to often put gigs on which was teeming with teenagers much like myself. Do you know what it is now? A f***ing Waitrose. By taking funding from arts education and putting it all into STEM, we are forcing a whole range of creative people into a box they don’t fit in, it’s short sighted. We shouldn’t be putting 100% of our focus into this area. So let’s put some focus back on the arts, nurture the creatives and allow them to express themselves in the only way they know how. I’d like to see more funding back into the arts and arts education and we need to hold the government accountable for the destruction of this sector. #mercuryprize #ezracollective #artseducation #artscouncil #culture #music #musiceducation #jazz #supportthearts https://lnkd.in/eBEUmHcY

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Here are some lovely music from these young people in the following video. Check it out!