Building Noble Hearts: Inside a Music Teaching Community

By Suzuki Association of the Americas

What's Building Noble Hearts: Inside a Music Teaching Community about?

From the Suzuki Association of the Americas, Building Noble Hearts explores the learning environments where we gain knowledge and also grow personally. These interviews with members of the Suzuki music community can inform good teaching everywhere.

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Building Noble Hearts: Inside a Music Teaching Community episodes:

09.13.2018
"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…
08.01.2018
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…
06.19.2018
Greater Than We Would Be on Our Own
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…
06.17.2018
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…
05.28.2018
"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…
05.10.2018
Season Two Trailer
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…
10.03.2017
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...
09.01.2017
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....
07.27.2017
"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…
07.07.2017
"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…
06.23.2017
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...
06.07.2017
"Holding Two Concepts In One's Mind" - Episode 4
Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators: we are all interested in growth and change. In this episode, Sarah Bylander Montzka explains the skill we can all use of "holding two concepts in one's mind at the same time"—a skill which can nurture...
05.23.2017
"It Transcended Us to Another World" - Episode 3
Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes Also on Stitcher and other popular podcast apps. Feed URL: https://suzukiassociation.org/podcasts/building-noble-hearts/ Music & Clips Radiolab “Sound as Touch” episode Sun Up by Stephen Katz and Derek Snyder Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky played by Alexander Ghindin. Comments…
05.08.2017
"It Doesn't Get Much Better Than This" - Episode 2
How are in-person and engaged communities created? What do they feel like when you're in them? We interview group class expert and cellist Carey Beth Hockett to hear her answers.
04.24.2017
Episode 1 - "You Have to Go On, You Have to Grow"
Who was Dr. Suzuki, why is there a community of teachers following his vision, and what ideas can apply to teachers anywhere? We talk with his former student, Winifred Crock, to answer these questions and more.
04.14.2017
Building Noble Hearts - Season 1 Trailer
From the Suzuki Association of the Americas, Building Noble Hearts explores the learning environments where we gain knowledge and also grow personally. These interviews with members of the Suzuki music community can inform good teaching everywhere.

What's Building Noble Hearts: Inside a Music Teaching Community about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Building Noble Hearts: Inside a Music Teaching Community episodes:

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

Practicing Can Be Hard - Season 2, Episode 3

Greater Than We Would Be on Our Own

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

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

Season Two Trailer

Matsumoto Memoir - Sarah Hersh

Matsumoto Memoir - Mark Bjork

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

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

Matsumoto Memoir - Helen Higa

"Holding Two Concepts In One's Mind" - Episode 4

"It Transcended Us to Another World" - Episode 3

"It Doesn't Get Much Better Than This" - Episode 2

Episode 1 - "You Have to Go On, You Have to Grow"

Building Noble Hearts - Season 1 Trailer