24- THE SELMA TIMES- JOURNAL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1972 GROUP STUDY SPEEDS PROGRESS in the piano studios demonstrate hand position for her class-mates. At front left of Mmes. T. J. Smith Sr.
and and Mrs. Edwin Hicks. and right are Beth Collins and Laurie Driggers; rear from Above, from left, are Sudy Thompson, Suzanne Smith, Beth left, Jackie Stoudenmire, Lisa Gavin, Kellie Patrick, Amy Smith, Carol Walton, Pam Moseley, Suzanne Hardy and Reedy, Barbara Hicks, Joanna Quinney, and Sherry Atkins. Mary Susan Peake. Below Mrs.
Hicks has Celia Moore Choral Society To Present Christmas Concert Dec. 3 season will be repeated next following Baptist churches, Sunday evening at the First First, Northside, Fairview, One of the most beloved Episcopal, First traditions of the Christmas Presbyterian and the Presbyterian Church, when Elkdale, Benton and Shiloh, SELMA MALL the Selma Choral Society among others. presents portions of the 'Tis the season Messiah, and also adds a new President of the Selma dimension to its annual Choral Society is John Joyce. for Coordinates from concert with the inclusion of Mrs. Wayne Robinson is excerpts from Vivaldi's secretary, Mr.
Ben Feagin, Gloria. treasurer, and Mrs. Robert COS COB For the second year, Mrs. Gordon, publicity chairman. 00 co.
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Reg. 15.00 12.50 12.50 10.00 Let our stylists help you find an exciting new image, starting with a good body perm. Call: Mary Dozier or Becky Barnes Big Beauty Salon Phone 872-5823 Highway 80 East at Big Trailer Sales New Method In Piano Instruction Adds Enjoyment For Young Pupils Remember when boys wanted to play baseball after school and girls wanted to leaf through their favorite movie magazines with friends but it was Wednesday and the piano teacher was coming? Except for a potential prodigy, that situation could make any kid hate the piano and cause a battle with parents who believed they had fostered future Paderewskis. Well, change is the keynote of today and piano lessons are as much a part of the new approach to learning as is the "new math." There is something significant happening in piano education that could make a world of difference to millions of average youngsters now taking or about to start lessons. It's a new, and educationally valid, approach to a very old concept: group instruction.
Today, after a year of instruction, the average youngster in a good group piano class can play short songs in any key, harmonize melodies with basic chords in major and minor, write melodies, chords and key signatures, transpose to any key and sighttread in any key in 1 his level, have a ready repertoire of modern, classical and baroque music and, to the delight of parents, compose his own songs. The approach is no gimmick. "We've learned through the research of such men as Bruner and Piaget, that you can teach a child of any age literally anything so long as you teach him conceptually and with honesty," said Dr. Robert Pace, head of piano instruction at Columbia University's Teachers College and educational director of the National Piano Foundation. His approach, which is now being used by about 8,000 teachers across the country under the guidance of about 100 highly trained clinicians, calls for two lessons a week.
One is the large-group lesson with eight or 10 students. This concentrates on harmony, improvisation, sightreading, ear training and keyboard technique. The teacher presents the material through keyboard and blackboard games and flashcards. The second is a "partner" lesson, involving two or three students from the larger group. Students work on repertoire and evaluate each others and their own performances.
Partners usually are grouped so they share specific problems. For instance, if two children have trouble with improvising, they'll share a partner lesson and get extra help. "There are no 'big shots' in these groups," Dr. Pace said. "Each person learns from others in his class as well as from the teacher.
This is based on my belief that we have got to learn to live together. We must learn to accept change, how to accept different points of view, how to respect others." The children in these groups learn how to criticize each other constructively and it's good for them as persons and as musicians. It's especially important because music is a social art. "You can't teach a social art in a nonsocial way, such as individual lessons, and expect the student to perform for the enjoyment of other people," Dr. Pace said.
"Peer interaction, which is what starts right away in group lessons even gives students a larger repertoire. And they gain more poise and understanding of the fundamentals," he "People often believe that individual attention is possible only in a one-to-one situation. But actually, I can give a child better attention as an individual if I see how he reacts to others in a group;" Pace maintained. "This way I am also giving him the individual attention of eight or nine or ten more people who are themselves experts on being eight years old." In the Foundation group approach, music is taught the way math is now taught in schools conceptually rather than through reliance on drills and rote memory. According to.
Dr. Pace, in group lessons you can teach harmony, improvisation, key signatures. And you can work on technique and repertoire in the partner lessons. The success of a method can be measured only by its success. Two Selma music teachers who have incorporated Dr.
Pace's group techniques into their own highly successful teaching careers are Mrs. T. J. Smith and Mrs. Edwin Hicks.
Earlier this year, the two went to Birmingham each Wednesday for eight weeks for five-hour sessions to learn the Pace method. Both are enthusiastic over its result in their studios and its future possibilities. Christmas Comes From Many Lands By GAYNOR MADDOX Believe it or not Christmas was once looked on as "a corruption" in New England. It was not until the middle of the 19th century that. Christmas was completely celebrated outside the Roman Catholic, Episcopal and Unitarian churches in New England.
"When the Christmas season at last became a New England holiday, it had absorbed many of the most endearing and enduring traditions of many countries like America herself. It included German Christmas tree, the Dutch Saint Nicholas, the evergreen and mistletoe decorations of the Scandinavians, the beloved carols of all these people and holiday foods that had a flavor of the best of many mother countries along with dishes unique to New England woods and waters." Unlike the traditional menu for the historically honored Thanksgiving feast, Christmas dinner among the Yankees has several surprises. Fresh lobster is one. Fresh clams on the half shell is another. The English customs are reserved and enjoyed throughout New England.
According to Buddy Adler, innkeeper of the Publick House, Sturbridge, the traditions of the old English Yule are carried on in this 1771 tavern. "The Publick House today celebrates- with strolling minstrels, scarlet-clad women, wenches, a jester and a sprite who rides in on the yule log and hangs the SALE STARTS MONDAY 9:30 A.M. ENTIRE STOCK Johansen shoes 020. off Department mistletoe. As the minstrel strums his dulcimer and the rafters ring with the merry songs of Christmas, guests gather by an open fire in the taproom where Lafayette and his son stopped to rest in 1824.
Then they follow the Boar's Head procession upstairs for the feast. The menu would cheer the heart of any Englishman roast beef, roast suckling pig, glazed turkeys and hams, stuffed goose, molded salads, plum pudding, and Christmas pies." These and many more stories unique to fascinating, are contained in the charming new book, "Christmas in New England" by Taylor Lewis Jr. and Joanne Young. These things are a far cry from the first public celebration of Christmas in Cambridge, around the middle of the 19th century, says Buddy Adler of the Publick House. "As I recall the story, a Harvard professor of German descent placed a small Christmas tree in the center of Harvard Square.
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