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David Watterson
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- San Francisco, CA
- United States
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- About me:
- I'm a pianist, artist, service artist, creative person, friend, son, brother, public servant, crazy dancer, happy guy, and I am trying to make the world a happier, more creative, more ALIVE place. I'm passionate about helping people - especially young people - realize their unique human potential. Music is the gift that the higher power gave to me to do that with.
- What does music mean to you?
- Music gives me energy, it connects me to the universe, and it gives me a way to express my humanity and find where that humanity connects with other humanity. Music has made me a more joyful, a more loving, a more caring, and a more patient person.
- Why is the music-based service movement important to you?
- I'm strongly passionate about music and national service, having a background in both. So naturally, I'm a big believer in the music national service movement. The time for this movement has come. The Venezuelan music instructor Jose Abreu says the greatest crisis the world faces is a spiritual one, not an economic one. We face a crisis of spirituality and dehumanization. We face a crisis of too much wasted human potential. Too many young people are being told and convinced that they are not good enough, smart enough, brave enough. For too long, music and creativity - basic human instincts - have been withheld or discouraged by our schools, television sets, magazine advertisements, and neighbors. This is a movement to awaken every human being - man, woman, and child - and tell them we're ready to listen to them sing.
- Musical Interests
- Composition, Performance, Promotion, Theory, Listening Appreciation
- Musical Expertise
- Piano, Vocal
- Where I serve:
- Worldwide
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Fun in Zanzibar
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Music for Job Skills in Zanzibar
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:00pm 1 Comment 1 Like
It is afternoon in hot and humid Zanzibar, the beautiful East African island off the coast of Tanzania. Derrick Rainey, 25, is teaching a music class. He came all the way to Zanzibar from his home in Little Rock, Arkansas to teach this class. On his…
Continue VIDEO: What Music Teaches You
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 5:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
"In the business world of the future, in the political world of the future, in the creative world of the future, you're going to have to be an improviser," says Roger Brown, president of Berklee College of Music. "A music or arts education can be very powerful." As a drummer, successful businessman, and now leader of the world's largest contemporary music school, Brown has a unique perspective on the…
Continue Honoring the Web of Life
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 4:30pm 0 Comments 1 Like
“One question that troubles my mind on almost a daily basis is: ‘What is the best way to utilize music and the arts to help solve global problems?’” For Aaron Appleton, 27, the elusive answer to that self-posed…
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hello - thanks for welcoming me here!
Congrats on soon earning your graduate degree in Public Service! I love knowing that it exists! Glad to welcome you to the MNS fold!
Reading your profile I think I have a little research to do... "Stax records!"... I love motown so I have to check this out!
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