European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine so elem Suzuki Kneel to teach a Mali pulpit to he will be at their it jv0/. Now v ,Linio learning the Suzuki Way mastering music is child s play by Terril Jones associated press Ive year old Etsuko Nakano sat at a grand piano her feet so far Oil the floor they had to be held up by two stools and rallied off Bach s fugue in b  Etsuko. Who has studied piano Lor two years is no Prodigy but one of the dozens of pre school pupils of Shinichi Suzuki who play piano sonatas flawlessly but still Haven t Learned to tie their shoes Suzuki 88, has tirelessly laugh generations of musicians making the lamed music learning method that bears his iame a familiar one in the music world. There Are 14,000 students today studying piano and violin through the Suzuki method in Japan and some 300,000 overseas. Aside from a hearing Aid Suzuki shows no signs of slowing Down. People say i m 88, but i m really 16," to said during a visit to his Talent education Institute in Nagano prefecture near Tokyo. I m going to retire when i m 110," Suzuki s movement began with a startling find. I discovered 56 years ago that people Don t have inborn  he said. In the human mind there is no innate ability for music or Lor  Bui the mind has the capability to learn anything at a Lender age what Suzuki Calls the living soul  children All Over world learn to speak their own language very Early he said. It s like bringing up a child among wolves he won t speak but will howl like a Wolf. The same is True with  the suit Al method is learning through hearing listening to recordings of music Over end Over again and repeating passages on one s instrument. The younger one starts the earlier the mind is conditioned to learn quickly. Once children learn a certain passage they Progress to the next step where the listen play listen play process is repeated until an entire piece is mastered. Groups of students work at various paces and a typical result is hundreds of Young violinists playing a Mendelssohn concerto in a huge concert Hull or baseball stadium. Language and music education should parallel each other said Suzuki the son of a violin maker Start from age Zero Lei them listen to tapes Beloro they Are even bom 1 violinist Mizue Hirabayashi. 14, spent her first month of violin study watching older students playing we had to go around and Greet them Bow to  she recalled. Then we practice with Box violins made with rulers and chopsticks " after a month pupils begin to play. Not Scales but melodies says Mizue s teacher Yuko Mori. They learn with their ears no Sheet music. Like a Mother Tongue they repeat repeat Many limes like a recording. They learn twinkle twinkle Lille Star or Sengol the wind melodies children  four year old Etsuko is Lar beyond that she s grown up enough to count Haydn Beethoven and Mozart sonatas in her repertoire but Young enough to dream of being an ohime Sama a Princess when she grows up. Other Tot at sex ukr s Institute Are so Small they re carried into the Institute s concert Hall by their mothers. The parents role is vital. Mothers create a musical atmosphere by letting their children constantly hear music Mori said. It s essential to do this at Home. Thai s where they grow the  Suzuki said such closely supervised study still allows pupils to do their schoolwork. It does t interfere. The children Aren t Given Homework and there Are no tests he said. They enjoy what they re  not All musicians share his enthusiasm. Music a extremely individual so learning simply by hearing and imitating Means it s not that person s own music says Kulko Matsuyama a 25-year-old piano teacher and composer who began studying when she was four. It s purely copying if you Don l reproduce ii exactly then it s a mistake. The Suzuki method lends to take away individual interpretation of music and you see Young kids playing in massive groups like robots. It s  Mori who has built her career on the system. Disagrees. Advanced students create their own music she said. They use their minds it s not just imitation. It develops the ability to Analyse in creates thinking people. Kids who play violin do Well at school they learn to memorize which helps them do Hwy Well in japanese schools where you have to memorize a  Mizue s Mother. Yoshiko. Also sings the method s praises saying her daughter is Able to throw herself fully into something see herself through to her goal. It Breeds a discipline she does things on her own. I think that definitely comes from her Suzuki  of a  la Suzuki Cmunt Orch firm. The stars and stripes Page 13