SHINICHI SUZUKI AND THE SUZUKI METHOD
Regardless, this doesn’t mean his learning method isn’t a good approach.
Hmmm...0bama also has Japanese lineage it seems.
so what... those who can’t often teach... and sometimes teach well...
His credentials, in retrospect, don’t matter at all. The method has made many good violinists. I know and have known a number of kids who started with the Suzuki method. All of them started at age three or four. . By starting a kid off learning songs he recognizes, the violin does not become simply a chore for the child and a pain for the parents. Mr. Suzuki’s method WORKS! I am sure many folks with virtuoso children who learned the Suzuki way would leap to the lawyers to sue the man were he still alive nowadays and many slipandfall lawyers who would be salivating, may yet be salivating at the prospect of suing the estate. My church has a whole violin and cello section of kids who were raised on Suzuki. People come from other parishes on Sunday to hear them.
The Suzuki Method worked well for me. I haven’t played in a long time now, but I did pretty well — the Einstein part may be fraud, but the violin part seems to have been OK. And that’s what matters.
I if he had been a fisherman this wouldn’t be a story.
So, I would say, since he isn’t here to protect himself, it might be good to remember the hundreds of thousands who learned by his methods and cherish the good over the effort to destroy his character and reputation.
One of the students of Professor Harold Hill, who was himself a graduate of the Gary Conservatory, Gold-Medal Class of ‘05!
Yet I wonder how many children have been taught by his methods and have done well?
Does his method work? Is he dead and can’t defend himself?
It is spiteful of the person to pursue this.
I do have to question under what authority these musicologists declare Suzuki’s method as fraudulent, especially since we have seen empirical results that it makes good musicians. After all, most musicologists were tutored under the same liberal arts claptrap which indoctrinates its practitioners into Marxism and feminism, all while giving its degree holders crushing debt.
Practice makes perfect, and rote memorization is one of many necessary tools to make a good musician/student. Liberal education ‘theorists’ have started ranting against rote memorization, perhaps because its usage reveals that some students are better than others.
I call it a cheap shot.
if the system that he developed works, more power to him...obviously his past is irrelevant. Why is it important that he knew or associated with anybody???
I have no problem with truth coming out.
This isn’t criticizing his method. It’s about actual lies and his credentials as a violinist.
I am sure his lie bolstered his reputation and made people believe he was a better violinist than he actually was. That’s why people pad resumes and claim they knew people and did things with them when they never did.
I don’t know anything about the guy, but I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say I smell some BS in this article.
The article states he was “basically self-taught” and that no reputable person taught him, but that he had a violin maker for a father. I doubt there are many violin makers out there who can’t play themselves. Odds are, he was probably taught by his father.
“Think, men! THINK!”
Although this is an Old Link from 3 years or so ago I feel I need to say one thing. Leo Fender the founder of Fender guitars the developer of Fender guitars and amplification engineering was not a musician. He was an engineer, and he found a way to engineer not only a guitar product line and a process for building a guitar that was affordable and could be put into the hands of many a young fledgling student (and professional) at a very affordable price. It doesn’t take a musician to develop a new way or process to enhance the instrument or the process of learning an instrument.
Next thing you know, Aristotle will be exposed for not having a philosophy degree. And that Michelangelo guy? Yeah, he had an apprenticeship, but never went to a credentialed art school.
