{"id":3242,"date":"2008-10-14T10:58:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T16:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2008-10-15T08:47:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T14:47:26","slug":"conrad-around-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/conrad-around-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrad around 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of my former piano students posted this on Facebook. I think this was around 1990. Here I am at one of my students’ yearly piano recitals, probably around 1990. I taught piano to many students from around 1989 to 2004. At one point I had over 40 students. I loved teaching.<\/p>\n

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It was never important to me that my students become professional musicians – but it WAS important to me that they COULD be if they wanted to.<\/p>\n

My biggest one memory of teaching piano? I had a parent complain to me that I was teaching their child religious music. We were studying Bach and I explained to them that we were studying his Inventions which were not “religious”. They were convinced that anything by Bach was religious so they told me no Bach.<\/p>\n

So I told them not to come Bach. (Man, am I funny). Don’t mess with Bach!<\/p>\n

Being older now, I would probably handle the situation differently. Now I would probably just agree with the parent, and then scotch-tape “MOZART” onto the tops of all the music pieces. Old age and trickery will always win over youth and skill…<\/p>\n

As many teachers will tell you – I actually learned more from my students than they ever did with me. And a good teacher will teach a student to teach themselves. So there was always the sad time when I had to let students go because they needed new influences. That was always painful – but always fun to know I was part of their path.<\/p>\n

Did the lessons affect their lives in a positive way down the road? I hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my former piano students posted this on Facebook. I think this was around 1990. Here I am at one of my students’ yearly piano recitals, probably around 1990. I taught piano to many students from around 1989 to 2004. At one point I had over 40 students. I loved teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[123,241,119,120,125,124,130,128,117,118,121,122,126,127,240,131,129],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-Qi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/3275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}