The Problem part 5: Molehill or Mountain?

Posted on by Jonathan Andrew Govias

To describe Sistema’s fall as inevitable is an abdication of responsibility: the failure of the movement must be viewed as an opportunity (perhaps the best in history) we were simply incapable of leveraging through our own pedagogical paralysis.

The Problem Part 2 – where we explore Authoritarianism in music education, with the help of the Karate Kid.  

Posted on by Jonathan Andrew Govias

At almost all stages of music and sport, some level of drudgery, of repetition, of building fundamentals, will be required. In music this is not an abuse of the conservatory system: the abuse is committed through the great parental and pedagogical cop-out “because I said so.”