Music cannot be single purpose. The social element it offers is critical, but it's not the only one of importance or value.
Revenge of the Domestic Dispute Part 3 – in which all questions are answered and all issues forever resolved.
The Domestic Dispute Strikes Back – Part 2, Jonathan vs. the Horn
...The part of the experience that has stayed with me the longest was the opportunity to engage with the music on a completely different level, to go beyond playing it to a place where I started to understand it, to appreciate its architecture and narrative experientially, even if I lacked the knowledge to deconstruct it theoretically. The difference was no more than frequency and repetition, but music had finally begun to mean something more to me.
The Domestic Dispute returns!
I occupied my mandated daily half hour by playing through things as best I could, trying to play fewer wrong notes each time without any conscious strategy or method, in a pseudo-Bachian optimism that if I were to hit most of the right keys at roughly the right time, the device would in fact play itself.
Posting 108 – in which a modest domestic dispute spills out into the blogosphere
Anybody who thinks I dwell in an ivory tower of music education, content to comment from afar, is sadly mistaken; as one of perhaps two Abreu Fellows who have at least one child, I’m aware how profoundly my daughter will be affected by all the choices my wife and I make for her.
Jonathan Andrew Govias 