by Asher Wolf | Feb 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
All art is theft, with varying degrees of directness. Creative ideas do not emerge from nothingness, nor are they divinely inspired; instead, musicians recycle. Musical fragments enter the vat of the subconscious and are morphed, deconstructed, combined, elaborated,...
by Asher Wolf | Jan 13, 2020 | Parent Corner
Recall your child’s first word… Now imagine it was their first sound. What if they had emerged silent and pondered speech until they were ready to present the fruits of their observations? “Go,” or perhaps “Mama.” In language, as in music, sense coalesces out of...
by Asher Wolf | Dec 9, 2019 | Parent Corner
Music students ought to love music. This is not a terribly controversial statement, but it is often seen as irrelevant. For some parents and teachers – and indeed in the Suzuki philosophy – the main idea behind music lessons is that the child develops...
by Asher Wolf | Nov 20, 2019 | Parent Corner
And it is by doing. Practice, habit building, repetition, reinforcement, routine; whatever you want to call it, there is no other way to build a skill or explore a mode of expression. So at the most fundamental level, learning is not very complicated or mysterious!...
by Asher Wolf | Oct 17, 2019 | Parent Corner
Why have we all gotten worse at learning? The assertion that children glom onto skills at a much higher rate than adults is, by this point, folk wisdom (it is also a central premise of the Suzuki Method.) Many propose simple explanations for this observation. One...