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Music is very valuable to children, said Judy Rummelsburg McCall, a professional cellist who grew up in Bakersfield, graduated from Bakersfield High School, and received a B.A. in music from UC Davis in 1990 and a Master’s degree in cello performance in 1992 from the prestigious Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
“It teaches skills that require the whole brain, including physical co-ordination and mathematical reasoning,” she said. “Music also gets to the expressive part of the personality, the soul.”
In addition to basic performance skills, music gives kids chances to be participants as concert goers, listeners and consumers and affords a personal relationship outside the home with an adult who can be a role model. McCall said.
The cellist, who now lives in Martinez with her husband, Greg, and two young children, will be featured in an upcoming...
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