European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Suzuki method never too Young to earn Story and photo by Joe Mapother staff writer innovative instructor san Lechl Suzuki with violin Pupil in West Berlin awing the scum method  conf i. Your youngest is approaching age 5 and unlike Young Mozart shows no intentions of composing his or her first  Are worried because you know in is a competitive world and you want your child to be Able to keep Pace. Who do you turn to Rinichi Suzuki is a Man who believes not a moment is lobe lost. Suzuki 89. Was in West Berlin s International Congress Center recently to put his Persona stamp on the 8th Suzuki Mamou International Congress. Followers of Suzuki roughly 250,000 worldwide of whom 3.000 were on hand for the Congress believe in starting a child off Young about age 3. That s when you re doing the hardware said one new England Suzuki method instructor. Afar that it s All  Suzuki method instruction programs have been developed Lor the violin cello flute and piano but the Suzuki concept of teaching a child at a Young age also has found its Way into he Field of general education. Rather than spending most of our resources on the upper Levels of a child s development we must refocus on the Early years of a child s development said Susan Grilli. Who until this year was head of a pre school in Dobbs ferry n.y., that is based on the Suzuki method. We founded the school because we thought what was happening with the violin was so exciting Why not do ii everywhere Grilli said. She has led the school which has operated since 1974, for a year to promote the Suzuki method. The Basic premise of Suzuki is that a child begins learning intuitively at birth and that the into hive learning process can be harnessed. More than four decades ago in Japan Suzuki observed that children pick up speech from their parents Complete with phrasing pronunciation and dialect without Ever opening a grammar Book. He decided to see if children could be taught the language of music the same Way Reading musical notation could come later that is the Way mall Guthrie 11, began learning he violin seven years ago in Memphis Tenn. His first music lesson was spent learning How to Bow a violin mis violin was a butter Box. His Bow was a ruler. Thyl idea was to teach Young Guthrie the motions he would need when he picked up his first violin. Listening to classical music cassette tapes would give Guthrie an idea about musical phrasing just like listening id his parents would teach him la form words into sentences. However the Burden of learning is not Young Guthrie s to Bear alone according to the Suzuki method. Parental involvement is important to important that Suzuki asks parents not Only to accompany their child to lessons and watch Over practice sessions bul to learn How to play the instrument As Well. After ail Young Mozart came from a musical family. I be Learned about music As they  said Terry Guthrie who has two children studying under the Suzuki method but i be never actually played an  she admitted that the suggested two hours of practice per Day sometimes Falls victim to other interests of her children such As soccer or gymnastics. But even without being a die hard Suzuki method Follower Here is plenty of work in it for her she said. Doing thing together As a family played a big part in opting for the Suzuki program offered at Memphis state Guthrie said. It would be very easy for me to take mine or any number of children and sit them in front of a to or five  providing a productive learning environment is Guthria a main concern she said. Whether or no her children decide to compose minuets is their own concern. The payoff is in producing Well rounded adults equipped to handle the future she said it s not just. Play the violin today " some useful Suzuki method addresses International Suzuki association office of the executive Secretary 7922 nor Haven Road Dallas to 75230. British Suzuki Institute the administrator Benedetto s. Breslin the old school brewhouse Hill  Hertfordshire al48an, United kingdom. Deutscher Suzuki Insl slut e.v., Herbert Thomas  Kurfuerst Tendam 237.0-1000 Berlin 15. Suzuki vereeniging Nederland Suzuki association of the Netherlands Susan m. Johnson Secretary Bolst Raal 29,3581wf, utrecht Netherlands. Talent education Institute in Belgium Jeanne Janssens  209, by 050 Brussels Belgium. Erma Bombeck one of the great social problems of our times thai could change the course of our society As we know it came to television this year. Remember when someone tried to set you up with a Blind Date and the first words were How tall is he she the Guy could have been a barn Burner had one tooth and the brain of a food processor but if he was tall hey he was Worth a shot. Well this year on la. Law a Man actually has a relationship with a woman 1 a inches taller than he is. And it s not a comedy. Is history being made Here or what maybe we have come some distance since Alan Ladd 5-Iooi-4 made love to Sophia Loren 5-1001-8 while he was balancing on a crate and she was standing in a Trench. We All got caught up in the myth that Sallness was crucial. I m Short. I could have worn heels with Toulouse Lautrec but do you think i d be caught dead with someone my size tall meant sexy athletic and someone who wore clothes Well. Short meant Stocky impish and someone with a Nice personality you fixed up your Friend with i can remember a Good Friend of mine who was considering marrying a Guy who was an Inch or so Shorter than she was. A group of us who cared deeply for her look her aside and pleaded for god s Sake Carol do you want to go through the rest of your life wearing Ballet slippers that make your Ankles look thick in Ralph Keyes Book the height of your Lite he wrote that a study of men s annual salaries actually found an apparent Isoo per Inch height Bonus in the Range Between 5-foot-6 and Frlool-3. Face it. Women were programmed to look up to men. If they looked up and saw Blue sky they d never respect him in the morning male shortness has never been an easy Road. 11 has been paved with ignorance prejudice myth and stereotypes. I doubt if there s a person alive today who cannot recall where he was and what he was doing the Day he found out Paul Newman was Short. Of there were a few breakthroughs when the late Grace Kesly lowered Over Prince Rainier and Lisa Halaby topped King Hussein bul everyone rationalized Royalty did t have to live by society s rules. The irony of it All is that Short men Are today s sexiest men. No woman stands so tall As when she leans Over to kiss Michael j. Fox. There Are no lifts in Woody Allen s Tennis shoes. And it Robert Redford is a troll i could t care less. Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker of la. Law. Who Are husband and Wile in real Lite have Given new meaning to Rote reversals. As for me. Dudley Moore can slow dance with his head on my shoulder for As Long As he wants. Or until my husband cuts in. C los an gtd Page 16 the stars and stripes wednesday september 2,19b7