🎻 "Liberate the Music!" — Why Sarnia de la Maré FRSA Believes Musical Education Belongs to Everyone
🎻 "Liberate the Music!" — Why Sarnia de la Maré FRSA Believes Musical Education Belongs to Everyone In an age where knowledge has never been more accessible, it is profoundly frustrating—no, infuriating—to see music education gatekept behind paywalls, locked into PDFs sold for profit, or tucked away in overpriced subscription platforms. Sarnia de la Maré FRSA, founder of the Sarnia de la Maré Academy of Arts, calls for the liberation of traditional music knowledge. And she’s not whispering. “Technique is not a luxury,” she says. “It’s a right.” The Theft of What Was Already Ours So much of what young musicians need to grow—scales, traditional songs, folk repertoire, foundational exercises—is in the public domain. These pieces of music, some handed down through generations, others printed in 19th-century primers now gathering dust in libraries, were once freely shared among communities. They weren’t products. They were part of the commons. And yet, in today’s digital ...