The Friday Informer: Can’t Keep the Kids Down

• My calculus teacher always told me I didn’t need advanced math to work in music. [via listen]
  
  
• You can take the music education out of the schools, but not the creativity out of the kids. [via BoingBoing]
  
  
• Not that we’ve ever been able to get them to stop writing such foolish music anyway.
  
  

• Though these guys just might be able to stop their cell phones from interrupting things.
  
  
• There’s a pixel on here somewhere representing the federal arts budget.
  
  
• It’s over, it’s over, it’s ooooh-ver.
  
  
• With this and this, all our hopes to launch a comedy club featuring stand-up musicologists crash and burn.
  
  
• The orchestra industry’s great silver hope? (At least until they unionize.)