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Notes from a musician's journal.(Marking Time)
Courage doesn't always soar. Sometimes courage is the small voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.
--Anonymous
Recently a young piano major came to me wanting pedagogy advice. "Amy, my neighbors asked me to teach piano lessons to their children, and I don't know what I'm doing." Thinking about my own group of students--their weaknesses, their struggles, their failings, I admitted, "None of us do."
I don't mean that literally, of course. In 101 ways I know exactly what I'm doing. Give me a child ready for lessons and, in short order, I will have that child successfully playing the piano. But to imagine that, on some ...
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...like Power Rangers and Pokemon did. When our son started piano lessons in second grade, he took to music eagerly, displaying interest...soared. While it's probably true that the battle with piano lessons isn't over, it's safe to say there has been a truce...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire September 14, 1999 700+ words
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