[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> <<It occurs to me that before you can get kids to listen to music (any music)
> it is important to first teach them how to listen and what to listen for. Its
> like going to an art show. You see all these beautiful paintings. But until
> the tour guide tells you that the bottle on the table behind the subject is
> absynth which the artist was addicted to in real life on can not hope to
> fully appreciate the painting. Just a thought. marcel>>
what worked for us:
When my daughter Mimi was a young girl, I used to take her hiking, to the
library, to hear the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, we took in jazz too....we went
to see the National Ballet company perform, she saw lots of plays at Stratford,
Ontario.... her life was filled naturally with the things I loved to do I
suppose..... well lots of cultural things as it were.
I didnt tell her how to listen to music or how to see art...or how to interpret
things the way I saw it or the way something was 'meant' to be seen. I just let
it happen to her. I stood back and watched her. I learned from her as she
absorbed it, embraced it, was moved to the core of her sweet little soul by it in
whatever way she felt it in that moment of innocence.
Telling her what to see just didnt sit well with me... kinda reminds me of the
Harry Chapin tune when the kid goes off to kindergarten and wants to paint
everything in lots of different colours and the teacher tells him he cant do
that...he has to paint flowers in only red and green because thats the way
flowers are.
my point is that I would never interrupt her process of discovering beauty, be
that through music or art. For me, "feeling" music and art is the way inside
it. Same goes for standing on Peggy rocks on the south shore of Nova Scotia
before a most glorious sunset. I dont want anyone to tell me what I am
seeing....I want to figure it out for myself. I want to feel that sunset all the
way down inside my soul.
as always, in my most humble opinion
Mags
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