Music educators have the potential to educate student musicians to be ethically involved citizens of the world. Educators can promote worldwide understanding by nurturing sensitivity and fostering sympathy within and between human beings and thus help students become agents in the creation of alternative globalizations. From an ethical perspective, music students can be nurtured to be more sensitive beyond music by being educated to analyse musical elements such as melody and structure, understand different musical styles and meanings, and experience music making with others, thus better able to understand the feelings and needs of other people in the world. Such fostering of shared feelings and the promotion of mutual respect, trust, and caring is paramount in the mini-societies of the studio, rehearsal hall, classroom, and wider echelons of society and today's globalized world. Music education has much potential for educating citizens to discuss and take part in genuine dialogues between individuals and cultural groups of liberal and non-liberal societies, thus helping global ethics to become part of a creative process that is continuously redefined in different contexts.