The shared experience of a huge crowd at a sporting event is not unlike the shared emotional/spiritual experience of an audience at a live music event, but to convince and encourage people who have never attended a concert, we must begin individually, with one person at a time. We must organize concerts or musical events that involve a variety of musical genres, a variety of musical performers, and host these concerts in unexpected places and informal settings.
     We must seek out music education and outreach projects around the globe that are deserving of encouragement or assistance, and get involved. Many people everywhere are very frustrated with the growth of music as a "product" or commercial tool, losing awareness of its original existence as a primary means of communication. Both audiences and performers of the next Millennium have so much to communicate emotionally, intellectually, spiritually, and music is the one universal global language requiring no translators. If music listeners, teachers and performers around the world unite, they can be a very powerful source for Communication, Camaraderie and uplifting Concert experiences for the generations to come.

The Listen for LifeTM Network was founded by internationally-known musician Donna Stoering who performs classical music but is also a devoted fan of world music, jazz, Broadway musicals, folk and gospel music traditions. In speaking with audience members after her performances around the globe, she has discovered a variety of "musical needs or desires" that seem to be shared among all musicians and music lovers everywhere.

1) a need for the creation (and broadcast of) more television programs that cater to more diverse musical genres

2) in the case of classical music in particular, the need to make both televised and live concert performances much more informal, exciting and emotionally accessible to young "MTV"-raised audience members, who say they actually like classical music but do not like the way it is presented.

3) the need to encourage, unite and inspire both music teachers and music-organisation leaders around the world

4) the need to establish a way for musicians and music listeners to communicate with each other. Musicians often end up "working in a vacuum", not aware of who their audiences are - and this makes it more difficult to communicate warmth or intimacy on stage, which is part of the problem in inspiring, or bringing in, new audiences.