Winfried Dressler wrote:
> John Zavacki said:
>
> "I can listen to a fugue, pick off the highlights from the television,
> carry on a phone conversation, and write a response to an email message
> with little effort. No brag, just fact. "
>
> It sounds amazing and not at all like Attention Deficit Disorder. Is
> there any help to learn this ability (a sixth discipline) or is it "just"
> talent?
Winfried,
Choral work for the ears. Piano cross rhythms, like the Fantasie
Impromptu by Chopin for the hands. Earlier I posted material on the
effects of musical instruction on the brain. The hands were the beginning
of the development of the human part of the brain. They still are
connected to the development of complex thought processes.
There is a man named Jim Murphy, a mathmatician who uses traditional
string figures to teach Math to people who are Math phobic. He started
using the figures because of a hand injury and then realized what they
were doing to the way he thought about his work. From there he moved to
teaching difficult students at the LaGuardia School of the Performing Arts
in New York City. The students had been poorly taught in Math skills and
he found that the use of the thumb in particular was enlightening. Piano
uses all of the systems plus adds the aural pleasure. I can imagine your
asking why they didn't just teach them piano. Because the NYCity school's
cutbacks in the arts doesn't allow people studying Math to study piano as
a cure for Math phobia, of course. It has to be a Math course to fix a
Math problem.
Anyway, enjoy,
Ray Evans Harrell, artistic director
The Magic Circle Chamber Opera of New York, Inc.
mcore@idt.net
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