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2025-01-302025-02-08

Community and language in string teaching

We have a tremendous responsibility toward the community (besides providing the professionally-delivered solid basics and technical expertise) to be loving and caring toward our students' perceptions, experiences and needs.

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2021-12-172022-01-13

Tone III

There is another aspect to tone that heavily influences and even overshadows the previous two essays. As a string teacher advocate, I will now focus on how we can nudge ourselves into becoming better teachers by becoming aware of the tone in our life. There is a way in which we go about our day-to-day …

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2020-07-202020-07-23

Save school orchestra – soul call for your help

School orchestras need help now. After spending the night at a Buddhist monastery in Suzhou, China, I reconfirmed my awareness that we must extend assistance to school orchestra teachers and the families of our students and potential students in order to get the message to school boards that orchestra is an integral part of a community that must be supported and sustained.

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2019-05-052019-08-23

String Teacher Moves to Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

US String teacher and performer moves from Germany to China (again).

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2018-09-022024-12-11

Strengthen our own inner voices

Learn to ignore negative opinions.

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