Hey guys,

This is Mosa, typing from Berkeley, CA when I should be working on a ten-page midterm essay. Eh, whatever.

To the class of 2010 MusApp: Thanks for supporting the club by your presence and music. You’ve brought a wide variety of music to the Fridays, and I don’t know about you, but I found new favorite artists by listening to all the music. :)

To the new MusApp Cabinet - you guys can build the music-sharing community to greater levels, go to more concerts using fundraised money, stop the genre-boundaries that prevent people from listening “outside the box”, and introduce favorite styles and artists to each other. 

I didn’t have enough time to build the club to something I envisioned that was truly enlightening, revolutionary, and contagious, but you guys have that time now.

I basically copied and pasted this from the Facebook group. But it’s true. We are a musical playground, where ideas can grow and people can go down the slide to musical happiness.

STEP 1: Share music and educate ourselves of the many genres out there. 

STEP 2: Appreciate the diversity, geniosity, and beauty of music.

STEP 3: LIVE MUSIC. Love music.

Why is there war? Because people can’t see other perspectives and cross over the borders they’ve drawn for themselves.

Music can be like that too. All these labels / genres / proclaimed styles - those are boundaries.

When a group of intellectual people gather to cross these genre boundaries, a new sense of openmindedness is fostered.

A new generation of openminded individuals rises to become the voting, policymaking citizens of the political global system. Whereas previous generations that listened to only one type of music, only saw one solution and because that solution could not be agreed upon, decided to go to war…this new openminded generation sees more solutions and has the capability to look beyond limitations.

Therefore, music can stop wars.

Good luck on your senior year, JC, Andrew, Erika, Sindy. Thanks for stepping up to prove to the school community that music is more than sounds or air vibrations. It’s a power. 

cheers,

Mosa