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The Music That Shapes the Soul: Owen Barfield, Original Participation, and the Future of Education

I’m incredibly fortunate to be a piano teacher and music composition instructor to students of all ages a few days each week. I also perform, compose, create content for YouTube, and write music education books. My time is spent nurturing the imagination. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge beautifully put it, “The primary Imagination I hold to be … a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.”

It’s quite common for younger students to study with me, in some cases because of the decline of music in schools and the lack of imagination in the curriculum.


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