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What's love got to do with it?(teaching music)
American Music Teacher
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June 01, 2005 |
Greer, Amy |
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Seven-year-old Sarah was being particularly obstinate one lesson. Finally, she looked over at her mother and with a note of defiance said, "What if I quit the piano?"
Unlike swimming lessons or spelling bees, the role of music lessons in our lives seems to haunt us for years afterwards. When other people learn I am a professional musician, they inevitably begin to recount their musical histories: stories about the piano lessons they struggled through and quit; stories about the bad recital performance they once endured; stories about their grandmother, brother or uncle who was a great musician. In all the histories I have been told, not one person has ever said ...
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