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drcello
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(7/5/01 4:39:22 am)
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Child Cello
Prodigies
This is a link to an interesting article, with a good quote from
Starker, and which mentions a good number of famous
cellists...
www.scena.org/lsm/sm6-2/poison-en.html
Marshall C. St. John
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ruthann
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(7/5/01 10:38:39 am)
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Interesting article, Marshall. A couple of things struck me - the
bit about DeLay wanting her students to practice 5 hours a day was
presented as being a large amount, but I would guess that any
performance major is expected to give 5-8 hours/day to personal
practice, no matter who the teacher is. My point is that can't be
the "secret" to DeLay's success with students, nor is it a harsh
requirement. But the points about "regular" kids catching up to
child prodigies in adolescence is right on the mark, as was the
success on Asian students whose culture values accomplishment
through hard work.
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SW
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Re: Child Cello
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There is a very interesting bio about D. Delay. I think it's called
"Teaching Genius" or something to that effect. The author was
invited to observe lessons and had pretty open access to Delay over
a ten year period. There are chapters devoted to the development of
luminaries like Itzhak, Sarah, and others. It opens the door to the
Juilliard pre-college and the prodigies and the parents. It also
goes into the catastrophic breakup of Delay and Galamian that
apparently shook the Juilliard violin pedagogical world at the time.
I enjoyed it...
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Bobbie
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(7/5/01 11:03:56 am)
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What isn't clear from the article is at what age Delay expects five
hours a day of practice. What isn't excessive for a performance
major might be considered child abuse for a seven or eight year old.
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Lucy
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Practice
I very much doubt that the very young children would practice for
such long periods.
At the Menuhin School, 2 hrs supervised
practice per day is the minimum requirement. The children are
welcome to practice more if they wish, but great attention is paid
to making sure that their workload does not mean that young children
need to do more. Of course, the older they get, the more they will
do, but it is a natural progression.
IMHO it would be very
damaging physically for such young children to practice for 5 hours,
although I don't doubt that some (have to) do so 
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sarah
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Re: Child Cello
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Interesting article. Along similar lines - I've just started
reading "The Soloist" by Mark Salzman. Very interesting book written
by a cellist.
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