Building Noble Hearts: Inside a Music Teaching Community

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From the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and hosted by Margaret Watts Romney, Building Noble Hearts is a podcast exploring the learning environments in which children, parents, and teachers gain new knowledge and are encouraged to become fine individuals. Based on commentary and interviews with members of the teaching community inspired by humanitarian violinist Shinichi Suzuki, we examine themes of good teaching everywhere such as listening, community, creativity, and more.

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"I Get to Bring Them In" - Season 2, Episode 4

What is community? How do you find it? Join it? Build it? It’s more than just showing up to a bake sale with brownies from a box, then taking off (though I’ve done this many times). Is it bowling clubs…

Practicing Can Be Hard - Season 2, Episode 3

Music practice has its highs and lows. Sometimes we reach a state of bliss and flow as we find the perfect balance of competence, challenge, and creativity with our instrument. Or, sometimes we can feel like Sisyphus; over and over…

Greater Than We Would Be on Our Own - Season 2 Episode 2

Margaret Watts Romney: Gail Johansen and Daniela Gongora are both violinists and teachers, but they’ve made music in vastly different areas. Gail Johansen lives in Fairbanks, Alaska… Gail Johansen: Right now since it is almost the winter solstice, we have less…

"We're All Performers of One Kind or Another" - Season 2, Episode1

Welcome back to season two of Building Noble Hearts. I’m Margaret Watts Romney. Here, we take a look at the learning environments in which children, parents, and teachers gain new knowledge, and are also encouraged to become fine individuals. Throughout…

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Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes Also on Stitcher and other popular podcast apps. Feed URL: https://suzukiassociation.org/podcasts/building-noble-hearts/ Welcome back to season two of Building Noble Hearts, I’m Margaret Watts Romney. Since the ending of season one last fall, we have loved hearing…

Matsumoto Memoir - Sarah Hersh

We are dipping back to a series of recordings - interviews made a number of years ago with people who studied with Shinichi Suzuki in Japan in decades past. In their voices, hear their curiosity and admiration as they remember their experiences. Also, you can hear the inspiration, wisdom, and gratitude that they’ve kept with them since they left. We’ve heard similar stories fro

Matsumoto Memoir - Mark Bjork

Our story starts in the 60’s, in Minnesota, when Mark Bjork was heading to an intriguing concert. He was going to see a tour group of very young Japanese children playing complex concertos brought to North America by Shinichi Suzuki. Welcome to this Matsumoto Memoir from Mark Bjork.

"Bringing Your Gifts and Feeding a Hunger that the World Has." - Episode 6

Have you ever felt so focused on the project in front of you that the rest of the world seemed to disappear? Perhaps time stood still? You felt in complete harmony with things around you? This place is a source…

"Skills I didn’t know my child had" - Episode 5

When is the ideal age to start a music education? Many teachers start students as young as 3 and 4 years old, but Dorothy Jones took to heart Dr. Suzuki’s admonition to focus on the babies. In this episode, we…

Matsumoto Memoir - Helen Higa

Today, we are looking at just one environment created by one teacher, and finding themes that can be applied to good teaching everywhere such as generosity, powerful observation, and warmth. Recently I was introduced to a series of recordings - interviews made a number of years ago with people who studied with Shinichi Suzuki in Japan in decades past. I feel like I’ve had a littl