Category: Parenting

Something about me and Suzuki

I wrote this when I was planning for a parent discussion group about 10 years. Around 1964, the first tour of Suzuki violin students came from Japan.  My father and grandfather saw the performance in Philadelphia.  The whole audience was in tears amazed about what this troupe of young children could communicate with music.  After

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Green Mountain Suzuki Institute

Bohemian and free-wheeling, the Vermont Suzuki Institute, The GMSI is my favorite Suzuki Institute I have attended thus far.    I was charmed by not one but two invites to a potluck dinners, endless picnics on the grass,  group classes under the trees, chamber music in welcoming locals homes with lovely pianos, multiple options for

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