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Selections from Nurtured by Love

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Suzuki Shin'ichi ,
Kyoko Selden  and
Lili Selden
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For more than three decades, Kyoko Selden was deeply involved in the Talent Education (Sainō kyōiku) movement, as a parent of three string-playing children and the translator of major books and articles on the Suzuki Method. Developed in the thirties and forties by the violinist Suzuki Shin'ichi (1898-1998), the Suzuki Method teaches children classical music as a means to enrich their lives while also enhancing their motor skills, concentration, memory, and self-discipline. Suzuki, who had studied the violin in Germany in the twenties, was one day struck by the capacity of children to master their native languages. Against the conventional wisdom that only certain people were graced with the talent to master musical instruments, Suzuki declared that anyone who could speak a language with facility had the potential to become a refined performer—whether amateur or professional—of music.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 16 , August 2016 , e7
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1 Teikoku Music Academy was founded in 1931 with Suzuki Shin'ichi as co-founder. The word teikoku means “the imperial state,” but Teikoku Music Academy was a private school. The school was closed in 1944 because of war damage. Kunitachi Music Academy, now Kunitachi College of Music, was founded in 1926 as Tokyo Higher Academy of Music.

2 From “Mozart: Aphorisms,” a 1906 publication to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Ferruccio Busoni, The Essence of Music and Other Papers, trans. Rosamond Ley (New York: Philosophical Library, 1957).