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Monday Music Musings 13

Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart. –Shinichi Suzuki

Schedule Reminder

Spring Break this week!  No lessons March 21-23.  Violinists, go practice outside.  Pianists, at least try to play with the window open!!

Monday Music Musings 12

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their …

Monday Music Musings 11

A painter paints pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence. –Leopold Stokowski

Monday Music Musings 9

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master’s spell:  And feeling hearts, touch them but …

Monday Movie 4

Fozzie Bear (from The Muppet Show) performs a catchy song about how Beethoven used “eight little notes” to write his famous music–one …

Monday Music Musing 8

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. –Pablo Picasso (think about this when it comes to the connection between practicing …