American Suzuki Journal 51.3

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by Jeremy Dittus, Rhea Edelman, Bret Serrin

Since 2000, I’ve enjoyed a long relationship with the method created by Shin’ichi Suzuki (1898–1998). First as a collaborative pianist, working with students and faculty at the Wyoming String Academy in Cincinnati, Ohio, then at the same institution creating Dalcroze-inspired… Read more ▶

Dalcroze, Other Educational Methods, Pedagogy, Rhythmic Training, Suzuki, Suzuki Method
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by Eun Cho, Patricia DErcole, Kate Einarson

Last issue, the International Research Symposium on Talent Education (IRSTE) team shared some of our recent research about Suzuki parents. In that article, we reviewed both initial parent training and ongoing parent education practices. We also summarized how parents preferred… Read more ▶

Articles for Parents, Challenges, Confidence, Parents, Research, Survey, Suzuki, Talent Education Research Institute
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by Shu-Yi Scott

I marveled at watching some amazing group classes when I took my unit teacher training courses at different summer institutes. The classes that influenced me the most included creative group classes led by Carey Beth Hockett at the Chicago Suzuki… Read more ▶

Group, Group Class, Group Lessons, Pedagogy, Teaching Tools
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by Annie Barley Givler

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb “Why is studying the cello something your family feels is important for your child?” “What are you hoping your child takes away from their musical education?” These are questions pulled directly from… Read more ▶

Health, Pedagogy, Teaching, Working with Students
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by David Saccardi

My career, indeed, my musical life, has taken a number of turns that I didn’t expect when I set out for music school. I’ve written before in the ASJ about how as a young orchestra teacher I thought I had… Read more ▶

Music, Music Education, Pedagogy, Public Schools, Suzuki, Suzuki in the Schools, Suzuki Philosophy
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by Edmund Sprunger

What kind of approach would serve me best in teaching a four-year-old? I pondered this question day and night. . . . All children throughout Japan speak Japanese magnificently. . . . There is the fact of training and education behind their capacity to speak. Therein lay a… Read more ▶

Learning, Pedagogy, Practice, Suzuki Method, Words
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by Kelly Williamson

For over twenty years, the Baccarelli Institute has served the residents of Heliópolis, a community in São Paulo Brazil. Founded as “an agent of social transformation through art,” the Institute provides more than 1,200 children and young people with a… Read more ▶

Brazil, Flute, Interview
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by Susan Kempter

Some years ago, I was a regular at Learning and the Brain Conferences. I especially remember a wonderful session called “Stress and the Brain” given by Dr. Robert Sapolsky, professor of neuroscience at Stanford University. His informative and entertaining book,… Read more ▶

Shinichi Suzuki
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by Sanchie Bobrow

Years ago, a very prominent show business couple were interested in starting their four-year-old child at the School for Strings in New York City. They sat with the school’s founder, Louise Behrend, for their interview and asked whether their au… Read more ▶

Articles for Parents, Parent, Suzuki
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by Casey Mink

“I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.” –Shinichi Suzuki, Nurtured by Love “No instruction can make a dancer catch just the time of the music, or a singer… Read more ▶

Shinichi Suzuki, Suzuki, Suzuki Philosophy
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We are saddened to hear about the passing of renowned bass Teacher Trainer Dr. S. Daniel Swaim. He had a profound impact on the Suzuki community. Our sympathy goes out to his family and those who knew him. Snavely Daniel… Read more ▶

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by Angelica Cortez

We are, first and foremost, a learning community. As I’ve read through the articles for this issue of the American Suzuki Journal, I’m struck by a common thread amongst our pedagogical philosophies: curiosity. As we practice the pedagogy and philosophy Dr.… Read more ▶

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by Ellen Kogut

Dr. Suzuki was an incredibly creative and insightful pedagogue whose legacy continues to be a source of inspiration. Teachers who had the opportunity to study with Suzuki describe him as an innovator. He would regularly come into his studio declaring… Read more ▶

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