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Welcome to Music
Teachers Insightful Practices (MTIPS) Newsletter!
Written and Published by Nicholas Ambrosino
www.musicsimplymusic.com
director@musicsimplymusic.com
March 5, 2003
Table of Contents:
1. MTIPS Theme
2. Welcome Notes
3. MTIPS Development
4. Notable Quotables
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1. MTIPS Theme
Young people will have plenty of time for stiff
competition as they grow in the world. Varsity sports,
SATs, placement in their graduating class, music
competitions, job competitions, promotion competitions
to name just a few. Perhaps the music recital can be a
time for zero competition. A time for celebrating an
effort.
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2. Welcome Notes
Welcome to Music Teachers Insightful Practices (MTIPS)
Newsletter!
As many of you know, this year, I have set the goal of
600 total subscribers. Presently, we have achieved just
about 50% of the goal! This month alone, thanks to your
referrals, MTIPS added 47 new subscribers! I am excited
to see that you find MTIPS valuable enough to share with
your friends an colleagues! Would you take a moment to
forward this issue to anyone whom would benefit from a
positive ezine to assist them in utilizing their fullest
potentials as teachers and students? Thanks again!
And finally, a warm welcome to all of our new
subscribers. My goal is to provide you with practical
tips and insights that will make your career or
education in music, more fulfilling, rewarding and
enjoyable. Please feel free to contact me if you would
like to see a certain topic covered in an upcoming issue
of MTIPS. My email address is editor@musicsimplymusic.com
Be sure to check our website for NEW FREE REPORTS! There
are presently 13 FREE reports. Everything from financial
planning for private music teachers, to practicing tips
for students! Just go to
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and follow the links to the FREE report page. This page
is only accessible if you are a registered MTIPS
subscriber.
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3. MTIPS Development
I just came off of Music Simply Music's first of two
recital weekends. 200+ students, young and older, novice
and more experienced, shared their music with audiences
of 50-100 people. While the recital weekends are
exhausting, as MSM runs 3 recitals on Saturday and 3
more on Sunday, they are emotionally rewarding, because
they are designed to create feelings of success in the
participants.
Many parent, who took music lessons as children, have
less than fond memories of music recitals; boring, long
and highly stressful experiences they were forced to
participate in by unknowing teachers and parents. Yet, I
believe it is the responsibility of the teacher to
arrange a program that creates the highest possibility
for success for each participant. And this can only be
accomplished when the needs of each participant are met,
just as feelings of success can only occur in a private
music lesson when the individual learning needs of the
student are met.
Recital success, for me, is divided into two categories,
proficiency and personal growth. If the wrong goal for
success is placed on a student, the wheels have been set
into motion to create a negative experience for the
student.
What do I mean, you ask? Well, if a child is new to the
performing experience, which I prefer to re-label
"sharing music with others", it is usually an
inappropriate goal to put the success of the
"sharing" on the accuracy of the musical
performance. The success for a novice "sharer"
comes in simply having the confidence to share his/her
music. To simply get up in front of a room of mostly
strangers and share a selection he/she has prepared
demands a high degree of self-esteem. For the novice
sharer, it is that degree of self-esteem that we
celebrate!
For the more experienced music sharer, perhaps
proficiency is a better goal. Yet, unless the performer
has much experience playing in front of a crowd of
strangers, the accuracy of the performance is not as
important. Instead the confident, proud preparation for
the performance is the proficiency that is rewarded.
We all know that playing a piece in the privacy of our
own homes, alone on the comfort of our own piano is
quite different than playing the same piece for an
audience on an unfamiliar instrument! Mistakes will
happen, but success is still possible if we, as the
student's guide, place the emphasis on the preparation
for the performances instead of the actual performance.
Young people will have plenty of time for stiff
competition as they grow in the world. Varsity sports,
SATs, placement in their graduating class, music
competitions, job competitions, promotion competitions
to name just a few. Perhaps the music recital can be a
time for zero competition. A time for celebrating an
effort. An experience in which a child simply gets to
share what he has learned without receiving a grade. An
experience where a child is simply enough, as he/she is.
An experience in which a child gets to feel proud and
excited to learn more.
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4. Notable Quotable (taken from Coachville DailyQuote)
"There are two ways of spreading the light; to be
the candle or the mirror that reflects it"
- Edith Wharton
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