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Through the Education Leaders Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts will convene decision makers from several states to develop coordinated state arts education strategies to design public education with arts at the core. Rocco Landesman, former head of NEA, delivers a wonderful speech explaining why the arts are so important and why they need to be included in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education.

Innovative music has always been inextricably linked to technology. The Pythagoreans set scales in accordance with their mathematical concepts of harmony in nature, Mozart wrote groundbreaking concertos centered around the newly invented piano, and The Beatles completely changed the face of popular music by pioneering almost every modern recording technique.

This is an awesome piece about the democratization of music and the advent of producing from a laptop and how that is changing the world of music.