in the last 24 hours I have observed 4 classes, had 3 hours of training, eaten breakfast, lunch and dinner meeting folks from all over (and I do mean all over - california, florida, mo, mt, nm, CANADA!) while talking music and life -- and inbetween and amongst this hearing 2 recitals - one by students, and the other by faculty. WOW --
today, and tomorrow, and the day after that will be more of the same. What a trip. Even in my halycon days of summer camp during college, scheduled activity took at most 5-6 hours during the day -- here..... started at 7 (writing yesterday's blog) and finished at 10 (with mandated sound stop) after doing my own practice (you may recall, and are all invited to the concert on July 29) and reading some baroque duos - boismortier - with a suite mate.
This is a teacher training institute - and the pro forma question is whether or not my teaching will change as a result of this week. The easy answer is yes, because everything learned should have some impact on your being, otherwise has it really been learned. The harder and working answer is that I can already envision some tweeking -- and/but at the same time Suzuki is all about teaching the very young - starting 3,4 -- and from the very beginning. Most of my students come from 1-3 years of lessons in the public school system -- and that changes the landscape considerably -- for good and ill.
Signing off -- coffee consumption so far -- no more than 4 cups yesterday. Today??
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