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Show E The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, July 13, 197.5 Violin via the mother language method Cv David L. Beds Tribune stuff Wntci "Since U' ic all kind o! ncu to each other, let's UN talk a minute You'e Been playing, a ;ear Ve.it and a half" lie goes "hat doun the line "Two Year and a hall "One lesson a week?" Nods "Class or vidual" 'hvervhodv Violins in position Okuv " arms Play Together They all plav together, three or lour phrases that m the original are How mg and graceful Their version is somewhat less so, but still recognizable The two gins stop Inst, a little shy in front of a new teacliei "Let's pretend we're all Ust starting to work on this, and, ah. go hack and talk about what s a good way to gel at it, says the teacher is John His name Kendall Once he was concertmaster of the St Louis Symphonv Oichestra Now he is a professor of musical development at the Edwardsville campus of Southern Illinois University, just across the river from St Louis Annual Conference lie is conducting a workshop in the Suzuki of 'John teaching at the University of .Utah, part of the American String Teachers t Assn.s annual string conference 'method What does a baseball player do before he starts to play? Warm up? bight What else? What does he do with the bat belorc he goes up there? Right! He gets the feel of it " little boy shakes his head "You don't have to" Well great' But when ." you're old like am A 1 is as a . teaches them a little exercise for the bowing arm, lifting and bending keeping it He loose Play first Nowhere, except on the piano m front ol the girl who has volmdeeied to accompany, is there any sheet music in sight. Thats one ot the basics of the system play first, then read It's the creation of a man named Munich Suzuki, a German-traineJapanese violinist who, pondering the rubble of his native land after the war, thought he saw in the ease with which little children le'am to speak, the means d of making music a universal, gentle, language. He invented the methmother language od of violin playing, and vvliat it is, says Trof Kendall, "is the method by which every child the world over learns to speak his mother language. "A t a nervous child with no atwho took constant supervision you to at youiseli Work your child ,n ur X uf tA.XX - . Hard to Prove is Suzuki? Well, its hard to But there are all those , who pLy the violin. And there is evidence that, when the parent starts learning at the same time his little child does. "The kids usually pass 'em up pretty quick prove, he . say.-,- "The idea is NO! to prepare thousands of - with concert violin Ms any system of education, the idea is to make better human " beings Nervous Child v hen if How successful e " ? thinks his is the best " Notice that those are for the parent, not the student-chilObviously the method has applications outside the violin, indeed outside music; it is not unlike the "look-semethod uf teaching reading, for example. The Suzuki journal has a it column calls "Behavior Moddication Through Suzuki," full of stones about little chhldren who overcame illness and handicap through the Suzuki method music records and lessons, mostly private A "repeated daily model," it is called Part of the method lies in the carefully looted curriculum, the series of pieces the child teams that build upon one another. The , -f f. v "I want to stress." says Prof Kendall. there's no formula No method is any better than 'he teacher Naturally every teacher pre- . the Suzuki program, she teas a nervous child with no attention . span who look constant super-lisionMusic hud a calming effect," says the American Suzuki Journal. A , . And so on f i And so on f) Make the small effort ot being pared for each single lesson at home 'I ' . as v.lh hom-tl- V . span had a calming effect The teacher-mothe- r child relationship . is the primary reason that at 111 today, she is a happy, child - 2j when Aie came into she comes into the Suzuki A ' ? A Zt,,, , Steven Goodman, Suzuki instructor from Provo, gives Dana Bunker her first violin lessons. Poetry Corner professor show s how Take, for example, the opening phrase of the little Handel piece the children have been playing The professor runs through it Hold l'p Hand LNTITLEI) . ' "Now, what's the most important note in the phrase? Hold up vour hand when plav it " - i T-- 4 1 At- da' dada da da da DA "That, huh" Then let's work on it He talks to them about their bowing They do it in the air at lust. "One more time. Lift and set, lift and set. Get the feet right That's Da ? 'ft. m A --r ' ft f i S 3ft t' ' - We have reached a great jrc A There are tf.l! ri I - to be sate and secuie. have never had more doubts about anything in my life, than all tins certainty . - it t ft- - iJ ( Ill do it GRET It Suzuki sttnlents, learning to play by ear, are, rout row. .Man Dayton, lelt. Marilee ( hristeusen. Bnbhv shimmin. Comfortably settled in the tuture. I find far too few dark corridors to look down. Reuben Ellis 780 River Heights Blvd. Logan. Utah 84321 sA. v m works by . ote, Ihe child learning how a phrase sounds, then how to play it. all by eai He starts young, pel haps at age 3 lie listens, learns, builds on what he has learned, nem forgetting an earlier piece any mine than a child forgets an old word when he learns a new one impair no issues to resolve, no questions m need of answers, no reason or justHicatiun How unnatural it feels to be immune, y I right. Ready, go GREAT. Now we re getting a phrase." Still the children have trouble with it. lie goes back to an earlier piece, one of the first they learned. He has them play it, then shows them how the bowing in that piece they know so well is the same as in the Handel phrase they are having trouble with Works by Rote Now. let's go around in a circle. and you and you and you and you Now we can all do it together," "" ? tention at have a practice problem home, be positive and call it a ihallengcIf "'!) regular, repeated exposure -- MusiC read takes .Jr v program, she was Try to introduce the Suuki ediuatmn pnv ilege 1) As applied to the violin, says Prof Kendall it means that faM the child learns to play without reading music, later he learns to It The man asking the questions is balding, energetic anti patient He has a violin in his hand, as do the torn little children two hoys, two girls in Irani of him "Do we have an accompanist"" girl in the audience raises her hand, steps to the piano He asks each of the children what he or she b working on now 'Kiev settle on a little piece by Handel that they all know raised he indi- gray-fringe- . And soon lie repeats He listens speaking --- -- V:, - J - A;'ix L fp T r bur T A Su f LdP-PeW V t xccecl ng .'J hi e b in !cnyT Du pe n oi id 'u Puc'fz L Jkc c tv, U u'a u.I'O Pocnvi CJiiGut L0 tr t uC'1 0 Tee O u ,f TvebcitLtTMiiie pu reu"ic r,J DOem not o is sho jld Bvat 8o7, Soit o- -t cl History of Iran told in free film a InMory of Iran told "Tales Freni the Book of King'-,thiough Persian miniature-.- , will be screened at 8 p.m Tuesday in the I muTstty ol Utah Fine Ails Auditorium. The film is sponsored by the Middle East tenter at the university . and is tree to the public fiina Christen sen. Paul begg; hack row, Paul Gardner, lelt. Kelli Bunker, Karl Bunker and Janet Anderson. The parents must help Without them the system fails. They help take care of the instrument. they encourage, they attend all they even help teach ns, "How many movements are there in bowing" Two. rigid? When you want to praclne you take the book to mom and dad Think they sure do it? lie pauses, then nods vigorously. SURE they could " Here are some Suggestions for Effective Home Practice from the American Suzuki Journal- turning back Utah poets win in contest awards There were 45 categories of poetry judged at the recent National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Inc convention m Salt Lake City, and Utah poets walked off with eight first prizes Max Goliglitly. Provo, esta P Crawford and Betty W Madsen. Salt Lake City. Lae! W. Hill ol Salt Lake won three ot the lusts, with Alice Murrey P.ailev, Sail e City Lake City, winning two, as well as a second place award Other first place winners were Charlotte Newman. Bountiful. was a third place winner and Le Rev Meagher, Pansy e Powell. Ms lhlL Ms Craw-tecl. Bailey also won honnia-btmention awards total ot 6,519 entries was leeeivec1 m the various categories Prizes ranged lrom sin to Si n Jean K Orem, Jenkins, president of the federation, was sustained by acclamation to serve as president tor a second year Russell Ferruti. first vice president, became Prize nthologv editor, succeeding Hans Juergensen and other vice presidents moved up a no' eh Will Pollard was named as lorn h me piesi-ilen- t 'Giraffe Story' opening Friday at BYU Special to The Tribune PROVO Giraffe Story. an award winning musical bv Robert Stoddard, will be pro sented Fncl.iv and Saturday at - the Brigham Young Lmveisity M argot ts Arena Theatre m the Harris Fine Arts Center. 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