ENDANGERED MUSICAL MINDS?/Start right start with KINDERMUSIK!

What a child has heard in the first six years of life cannot be eradicatd later. Thus it is too late to begin teaching at school, because a child stores a mass of musical impressions before school age, and if what is bad predominates, then his fate as far as music is concerned, has been sealed for a lifetime.....Zoltan Kodaly.....This is why I always hesitate to recommend formalized music lessons until 2nd grade....I want the children I teach to store masses of love for music....To have fun and enjoy their musical experience. ....Remember it is the process, not performance....

In human beings, the density of synapses increase sharply during the first months of life, reaches maximum at the ages of one to two (roughly 50% above the adult mean density), declines between the ages of 2-16, and remains relatively constant until the age of 72....Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind 44-45

The strength and efficiency of synaptic connections determine the speed and power with which your brain functions. THe most important news about synapses is that they are formed, strengthened, and maintained by interaction with experience. It is much more difficult to reorganize it in the first place. Organization inhibits reorganization. Carving out neuronal tracks for certain types of learning is best accomplished when the synapses for that particular skill are most malleable, before the firm up around certain types of responses....Jane Healy, Endangered Minds 52-53

A MUSICAL PERSON.....THINKS TUNES....FEELS RHYTHMS.....RESPONDS TO EXPRESSIVENESS IN MUSIC.....