Some of my students arrive for lessons in an accelerando. They pull up in front of the house and run into lessons, whip out their violins and they are chomping at the bit for me to hurry up and tune them because they are eager to play! Others arrive precisely on time and [...]
Entries from January 2006
January 17, 2006
“5-year-olds playing violin, and other obvious examples of child abuse”
“The show was cute, but I was suddenly reminded of the performing animals at the Circus and wondered how long it had taken to etch the frozen smiles onto these young faces. We saw 5-year-olds playing violin, and other obvious examples of child abuse.”
I saw this quote last fall on a page about North Korea [...]
