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'i Tuesday, January 10, 1967 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Pare 3 Taught In Hill Hall I A VMin Player At The Age Of 2? Yes-Alt UNC I "- "V . I ONE OF THE teaching methods that Suzuki Mary Frances Boyce's class practice walking advocates is walking around with the violin about the room during a group lesson in in order to "loosen up." Here members of UNC's Hill Hall. JOHN MEYCR tr NORWICH, INC. ' "" -;iH..l.liill,l.i.llll mill llllllllx..Juaii..WI..;l-OT.H .iiw,,..,,,y,,)1J. J-jegHMt-- Ml Aimttm.. 1 ; .f orficH ; . MM a, .... !S.l-.- N-Vl tr . "x1" j,: 7hsk Hi -?Yf 1 rrnifT fir . vV -t . t vV u Ik i ' "l-- - : ; : By JIAKY ELLISON TURNER Special' To The DTH Would you believe that a two-year-old could learn to play the violin? It's true! Age is no longer a harrier in the teaching of music to children. It is instead, an advantage. As a result of the Schinichi Suzuki Method, which has taken the world by storm in the last ten years, children learn to play the violin almost as soon as they walk! Children here have this oppor tunity. Miss Mary Frances Boyce, University Music De partment graduate stu dent, has made it possible. She pot her idea during the spring, 1964 when she went to Wichita. Kan., and heard Suzuki and some of his little students ap pearing at Wichita State Uni versity. - "I was amazed," Miss Boyce said. "I had never heard chil dren play so well A Ph.D. candidate at the uni versity. Miss Boyce is in her second year here with her class of violin students. Her 22 stu dents are from the Chapel Hill, Durham, Pittsboro area and range in age from two years old up. The idea of teaching babies to plav the violin was initited alter World War II when Shini chi Suzuki, a Japanese violin ist, became aware of the plight of Japanese children and de cided to find some way to give them creative activity and a new hope for their lives, accord ing to Miss Boyce. Before the war, as a musi cian trained in Europe, Suzuki had been teaching violin. Later he realized the value which vio lin playing would have for these tiny youngsters who so much needed attention and creative activity. Now 12 years later, there are nearly 70 teachers and 500 stu dents in approximately 45 dif ferent centers in Japan. Begin ning in 1954. some 1,500 of these students played together annual ly at a. festival in the Tokyo sports palace. Each summer since 1949, teachers, parents and pupils have gathered at Matsu moto for a four-day summer school giving concerts, learning new music and playing musical games. Suzuki insists that the primary purpose of talent education, as he calls it, is not to train art ists, but to give children the opportunity to develop the amaz ing potential which is illustrated in their ability to learn their mother tongue. Talent education is based on five vital factors: an early start, the human being as the prod uct of his environment, roi-vcti-' tion of experiences necessary for learning, a high level of in terest by the teacher and par , ents to provide a better learnin-. situation for the child, and an illustrative teaching system for the child based on a teacher's understanding of what, when and how. Suzuki contends that "all hu man beings have within them selves the capacity for develop ing their potentialities to a very high level" He feels education begins from the day of birth. "The abilities displayed by any child are the results of the train ing which he has been given in the past," he continues. His first principle concerns de veloping an ear for music. "A newborn infant," Suzuki con tends, "can be exposed to great works of music from his birth and thus know music from the start." Miss Boyce explained that by the Suzuki method, an infant develops his ear for music by the time he is one year old. "A lot depends on the mother, how ever, since the children who are most effective are the ones with whom the mother works," she added. The earlier children are start ed with violin lessons the bet ter, Miss Boyce explained. The longer you wait to start, the more tendency they have to be stiff. In my class, the eight-year-olds who have just started Have You Any Spare Panda Blood Around? are no better than the ones who are four and five. According to Miss Boyce. wind instruments aren't practi cal at an early age since they require much more discipline to get the breathing right. "With the violin, we can use much freer leaching methods such as walking around with the instru ment, concentrating on holding it, exercises and learning the bow." She emphasized the impor tance of finger exercises in learning rhythm patterns. The students use a book en titled "Listen and Play" by John D. Kendall based on the violin teaching of Suzuki. Among the songs they play are "Hot Cross Euns." "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," Christmas carols, and others. According to Miss Boyce, these songs allow the students to use many variations. "I spend about one semester on book one," she said. "Then I start on supplementary songs. By the time the students are eight, they start to read music. The younger ones listen to the songs and then play them by ear until they learn to read." SMALL KIDS The small children use minia ture violins ranging from the smallest, one-sixteenth size, on up and cost about $40-$45. Most of them are Japanese imported.; Suzuki has traveled a great deal all over the world and per formed for "standing room only" crowds. He was associated with John Kendall, who wrote about? his works, at Southern Illinois; University where he conducted a workshop. Suzuki's first student, Toshio Eto, is now a top traveling con cert artist associated with -another of Suzuki's students, Koyi Toyoda, concert master of the Cologne Chamber Orchestra. Kendall has spread the word about Suzuki in the United States. As Pablo Casals said about the Suzuki 'method, "It may very well be music which . will save the world." A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Miss Boyce grew up in Nash ville, Term, and is a graduate of Ihe University of Rochester where she majored in music. She received her A.B. in 13G1 and studied violin with Millard Taylor, a famous violinist there. She won her masters degree at Eastman School of Music in 19K3. Before coming to UNC last year as a Ph.D. candidate un der Dr. Edgar Aldcn. she taught three years at Marymount Col lege at Silcna, Kan. A part-time instructor in vio lin and music appreciation labs, Miss Boyce is proficient with the violin, viola, piano, french horn, tuba, and baritone. She has played in a number of sym phony orchestras including the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, the University Symphony Or chestra, the Eastman School of Music Orchestra. Ihe Silcna Or chestra and the UNC Orchestra. She plans to get a college teaching job after she completes her education. Her students receive a one half hour lesson per week per semester for $37.50. Miss Margaret Smith cf Winston-Salem, who is working on her masters decree in music, is helping Miss Boyce with her overflow of students. DAILY CROSSWORD ACROSS . 1. Brown earth. 6. Folds over 10. Unsophis ticated 11. Bulging1 jar 12. Strong cords 13. Water craft 14. River in SWAsia 15. Romantic of sorts 16. Sun god 17. Place 19. Region: abbr. 20. Ghostly 24. Emerge 25. Respond 29. Supplier 31. Vjper 34. Piece out 35. Music note 36. Large bundles 38. Safe: thiefs slang . 40. Hebrew measure 41. Orchestra leader Phil 43. Bewail 44. Reserved 45. Fish 46. Romany DOWN 1. Opens, as a gift 2. Nymph 3. Storage places 4. 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