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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                For five Days a week. Bill Bradley whirls through a routine that would tire an athlete and make a tobacco auctioneer hoarse. Bradley is the music Man at Heidelberg elementary school no. 2 where he teaches about 1,500 youngsters in his weekly rounds of the classrooms. He passes out wooden tone blocks to second graders who Pound them with mallets White everyone sings my country tis of  it teaches them rhythm. He then moves to a first Grade room and makes an exciting game of assembling the notation for a c major scale in the proper order. Before he leaves the children sing a song he has taught them in japanese. You can t beat the elementary schools for see ing the children get excited,1 he said you catch them when they have no inhibitions and develop their confidence.1 Bradley moves into the gym to direct All the sixth graders in a song session. He gives 40 classes one lesson a week and believes students could read notes after six years of this. Bradley. 31, studied at Wichita state and Colorado taught in Denver and Japan before moving to Germany. N the elementary schools you catch children when they have no inhibition says Heidelberg music teacher Bill Bradley. Mennoo a Sqq or sett u u Vav we xxx by z 2 Bradley gives lessons to 40 classes in his weekly rounds at Heidelberg. Assembling musical scale can be exiting game for first graders. Ii children work on school Matiea in the gym. \ sunday february 9, 1969 the sta1s and stripes Page 1$  
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