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WASHINGTON — Musicians Josh Groban, below, Wynton Marsalis and Linda Ronstadt pressed Congress on Tuesday for more funding for the arts.
“Around the world, music links generations old and young,” jazz trumpeter Marsalis, 47, told lawmakers. “For some reason, in our country, we decided we were going to allow the younger generation to be separated.”
Ronstadt, 62, said she’s dismayed when schoolchildren can’t sing “Happy Birthday” together in the correct pitch. “They think music comes from their laptops or their iPods.”
Groban, 28, recalled being a kid at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, which receives federal grants.
Brett Zongker, The Associated Press
