why don't you tell me about your choir
oh okay well we uh are a group of uh musicians that just kind of have you know formed out of a desire to sing
and many of the people in the group are very professional in the sense that they or just real talented i should say lot of them are former music teachers or currently teaching uh others have there's one gal that's in the uh Plano Community Orchestra
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uh just you know different backgrounds it's been really kind of interesting
great
so um
um i play the piano
and uh i have a four year old who who has started to play the piano
he does that uh musically listens and then he can play which is kind of interesting i think it's because he's always heard music in our home all the since he was a baby
oh yeah
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uh my husband and my other son who's eleven just got through singing in a musical here in in the community at Music Man
oh they did
yeah and it was lots of fun
how did
how did they get involved in that
um
basically they read in the newspaper that there were open auditions it was the Plano Repertory Theatre
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and so they went and tried out and my husband played Harold Hill from the Music Man and my son played one of the children in a band
oh how fun
so yeah it was really fun and uh my son plays the clarinet in his band at school and my daughter takes piano lessons too
yeah
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but uh we just really like music it's a i i especially like it as an outlet when the TV goes off we get the TV off and and just have some nice quiet music
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yeah
yeah that's nice you say have your four year old taking lessons already
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and uh who do you have her or him take it from
um i have him take from a friend of mine who teaches Suzuki
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which is an auditory type learning experience you listen to the music and then learn to play it by learning by hearing the intervals and things like that
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i teach uh
like what is traditionally taught you know you look at the note on the page and you play what's on the piano
but he can't learn like that he's a delayed child he's only about
i guess he's about two and a half in his real understanding of things
oh
and uh so when my friend played something on the piano and he played it
uh with his right hand we went wow we better have him do something do something you know educationally
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yeah
yeah
so that was really fun my husband and i love to go to the musicals downtown though
well because my
pardon me
so my husband and i love to go to the musicals when they come into town into Dallas
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well i have an eight and a half year old daughter who's taken piano lessons since the started out at the age of
just turning five because she wanted you know she just seemed to enjoy it so much and now my my four year old four and a half year old daughter is
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is trying to imitate her older sister and wanting to play and she actually does some very nice chording just naturally she just
oh i think that's great
so i wasn't sure when to start her i didn't want to push her too early either but uh kind of had a mixed feelings about that scene
that's really hard i think because especially if you start them and then they get pretty good and then they get close ten you know eleven or something and they go i don't want to do this anymore and you're like
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God i really want you to do it you know so sometimes it's hard to to know exactly when but
yeah yeah
i don't know if she acts like she wants to or says she wants to maybe you could have her take some for a while and see how she likes it
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yeah i think she'd like to i just don't know if it's really
knowing from what my daughter has gone through she's she learned a lot and it course it was something she had to keep relearning if she ever got away from it it was something easily forgotten so
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um i don't know if she's any farther ahead than those kids who started when they were eight or or should i say seven i mean she's not a gifted pianist in the sense that she's gonna excel just naturally she does have to really work at it but
um so yeah uh so i'm kind of you know just playing with it but at this point we're going to kind of wait i think just more for the financial reasons of it anyway but
that's like me
well it can get expensive that's for sure
yeah
yeah
i my friend is is very generous in in letting us have my children uh do the Suzuki method without paying a lot out
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oh that's good
yeah so it's been good for our family
well as a piano teacher do you have any feelings from kids who come from a Suzuki method have you had any former Suzuki students
i don't have any Suzuki students um
something happening to me at Christmas time that that verified to me that i will always
i was wondering how they
