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NARAS joined forces with the National Association of
Music Merchants (NAMM) and the Music Educators
National Conference (MENC) in 1990 to create the National
Commission on Music Education (a distinguished group
whose membership includes Quincy Jones, Henry Mancini,
Gloria Estefan, Whitney Houston and Itzhak Perlman) and
its "Music Makes A Difference" campaign.
At the time, Recording Academy President Michael Greene
maintained that our country's leadership holds the arts in
very low esteem. "How else to explain the fact that many
music education programs are in ruin across the nation?"
asked Greene, citing as an example the situation in
California, where the number of students playing in high
school bands and orchestras was cut in half between 1982
and 1986 (and where 98 percent of the state's children are
not involved in music at all). Greene described this level of
commitment to music education as "worse than lip service."