There is never a bad time to think about music advocacy, especially in today's financial and political climate here in the United States.  Today's featured music education video comes from Australia and a presentation at TEDxSydney by Richard Gill:

Music educator Richard Gill argues the case for igniting the imagination through music and for making our own music. In this talk, he leads the TEDxSydney audience through some surprising illustrations of the relationship between music and our imagination.