Ability Development from Age Zero: Chris Zafren

Posted At : March 9, 2009 1:00 AM
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Taken from Ability Development from Age Zero by Shinichi Suzuki, published by Ability Development Associates, Inc.

Contributed and read by Chris Tower Zafren: "Through my daughter's eight years of violin instruction using the Suzuki method and my own attempts to rediscover playing the instrument after a forty-year hiatus, I have come to appreciate music in new ways." Chris has called Anchorage home for over fifty years. After retiring from her Anchorage School District school psychology position, she has had more time for exercising with friends, playing the violin and painting watercolors. Her main passion and delight, however, is raising her amazing daughter with her husband, Ken. She is the president of the Suzuki Association of Southcentral Alaska and is active with the Alaska Watercolor Society.

In Ability Development from Age Zero, Shinichi Suzuki describes meeting Pablo Casals, who said, "Music is not just sound. Maybe music will save the world." Suzuki responded with this comment:

'"Maybe music will save the world. That is, if we work for that purpose. ... There are people who think that art exists for its own sake, but I do not think so. Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you, should burn with the obligation to save the world. It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit."
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Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.'

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