{"id":141,"date":"2008-07-11T20:03:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T03:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/2008\/07\/11\/milwaukees-brewing-up-some-fine-music\/"},"modified":"2008-07-12T21:06:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T04:06:37","slug":"milwaukees-brewing-up-some-fine-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/milwaukees-brewing-up-some-fine-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee&#8217;s brewing up some fine music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/darcyandmargaret.jpg' title='String Academy of Wisconsin'><img src='https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/darcyandmargaret.jpg' width=\"340\" height=\"255\"alt='String Academy of Wisconsin' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Master Teacher Darcy Drexler explains the finer points of violin vibrato to seven year old Academy student Margaret Knox.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every summer, string teachers from across the country make a pilgrimage to Milwaukee. This week,  I&#8217;m here with a dozen other teachers to observe what is arguably one of the finest models of string education in the world. For teachers, it&#8217;s a four day intense program of immersion simply entitled <strong>Teaching the Violin to Children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The String Academy of Wisconsin<\/strong>, founded in 1990 by well known pedagogue <strong>Mimi Zweig<\/strong>, is hosted at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The event draws its inspiration from the teaching philosophies of <strong>Shinichi Suzuki<\/strong> and <strong>Paul Rolland.<\/strong> These two violin luminaries were certainly some of the most influential violin educators of the 20th century.  Currently Executive Director <strong>Darcy Drexler,<\/strong> along with Zweig form the core faculty of the Workshop. For violin teachers, it&#8217;s a rare opportunity to draw upon years of experience distilled by some of the most effective violin teachers in the world.<\/p>\n<p>For me, a trip like this is great fun. Every day is non-stop violin: lecture, demonstration and recitals. It&#8217;s inspiring and motivating, exhausting and at the same time exhilarating. For my students: it means.. well they&#8217;ll be finding out soon enough \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master Teacher Darcy Drexler explains the finer points of violin vibrato to seven year old Academy student Margaret Knox. Every summer, string teachers from across the country make a pilgrimage to Milwaukee. This week, I&#8217;m here with a dozen other teachers to observe what is arguably one of the finest models of string education in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[22,24,25,23,19,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}