Music educators promote recital

Last December the Ministry of Education conducted a survey on music education in Belize. It was discovered that some schools had no musical programme, while others had varying levels of activity. The ministry decided that it was necessary to try improve the standards of music education and working toward that same end is a group of teachers called the Belize Association of Music Educators. Today we caught up with one of the members, Jason Guerrero, who told us about the association’s inaugural activity to help promote sweet sounds in our schools.

Jason Guerrero, Member, Belize Assn. of Music Educators

“This is a debut recital. It’s telling the public the association is now formed and this is the kind of thing that we will be doing. Of course there are a lots of other things to be done. For instance there may be a need to teach music teachers and we need to figure out how to do that, so that proper music learning can be disseminated throughout the country. So this activity is just one of several things that we will be doing. We will have two or three such recitals per year of the various music schools.”

The debut recital gets underway at seven on Thursday night at the University of the West Indies Auditorium at West Landivar. Tickets cost only five dollars and will be sold at the door.