My observation , while working in universities, has been that courses in music and art history have been severely cut from liberal arts degrees. Student unions have cut back on allowing space to voluntary music groups. I am a firm believer in the culturally unify ing aspects of music.
requirements for students in the lberal arts have increasingly deleted music from programs and I think that teachers and students need to seriously resist that trend, but I fear that it is a losing battle unless we inform ourselves as to why it is happening. It is great loss and needs to be brought up in discussions of liberal arts education. I Have continued to conduct music sharing groups but in my last years As a prof was no longer allowed to do this on campus.we need to ask why and fight this regressive trend. If we don't, music will disappear from our e ducational institutions on the grounds that it is elitist. we need to inform ourselves and fight back, I think.