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Show The Park Record Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon/Tue. Dec. 31, 2004 - Jan. 5, 2005 NO C-25 T ENOUGH ART IN OUR Sfftn NO WONDER PEOPLE THINK LOUIS ARMSTRON WAS THE F I R S T WALK liil M A N TO ON T H E M O O N . y every study shows., t - I t ' g ' a lan^ AvaWiuiii ilit Apollo Theatre t o - the Apollo program. And while his playing moms and dads like the eflects the arts have on may have been "as lofty as a moon flight," as their children They like th.u dance and music Time magazine once suggested, that would be and painting and drama teach kids to be more as close as Louis Daniel Armstrong would tolemnt and open They like that they allow ever get to taking "one small step for man" boy* and girls to express themselves creatively But as the premier ja2£ musician of the 20th AnJ they appreciate that the arrs help promote century, giant leaps were a individuality, holster sell u>nlideni.e while also matter of course for Satchmo improving overall academic performance No person before or since Which mtiM.s it so surprising ihat the arts has ever embodied - and have been allowed to virtually disappear from tnsrtjiJ of a gumi leap. L^im Aimsevn^ J J I U N ' J ,;»(- revolutionised - j a ^ the way our schools. And our children's lives in.1111 free form crj;v j.iz~ tjrwt'i /iir mjJifcm J d!I oirr the )dzz world And he m IMC up o.v/ordi- Louis Armstrong did. T H I S I S WHAT H O R N S A R E F O R . became the last jaz^ musician to hit #1 on the Take solos, for instance. It's impossible to A little art is not enough If you think the Billboard pop chart, he beat the Beatles to do it imagine ja^s; without them. But they actually Not bad for a kid whose first hour or so of an your I*ids are didn't become an established part of the j a ^ ; experience with a trumpet was getting each week isn't nearly vocabulary until Armstrong helped popularise as a guest in a N e w Orleans their Lnr share, it's time to nuke them. Seventy years later, his solos are still correction home for wayward some noise To find out just revered for their audacity and virtuosity. boys If only today's schools how to get involved or for mure were as enlightened as that information on the ways your In the 1950s, when his popularity became too big to be contained within our borders, reformatory was. he accepted an invitation from the State LOUIS T H E FIRST. 'RfTHMEDC education, please visit us on Department to act as an American goodwill Ask almost any parent, and they'll sav arts ambassador around the world. And when he education is very important to their child's ART. ASK FOR child ean beneIn from arts \ ijhe web M AmencansForTheArts org Just like the gre.u Satchmo, all you need is a little brass MORE For morp information about the importance of aria education, please contact www.AniericansForTheAris.org. AMERICANS '•H- |