I know that someone else started artisically talented, so apologies for a new tangent.
DD had her first private piano lesson today. She turned 4 last Sunday. The school had asked us to start private lessons 2 X a week last January, but we thought she was too young and her schedule full enough. And we thought her interest in playing violin was kind of like an Elmo phase.
The teacher started by telling me that he hopes he was not wrong about her. (we had originally booked her in group piano for the fall, by the second lesson he told us she needs private). After the lesson, he told me she was really amazing.
First, DH and I are not totally committed to her having a musical career. We were of the typical mind that you take piano lessons like you take swimming lessons. We did it, everyone we knew did it.
But we are now getting this feedback twice that she has something. And this is a serious music school in New York city. Not just random piano teacher.
My comment to DH was that I look at it as some indication of her general ability and her need for gifted education.
I am partly venting here and partly looking for someone to tell me their experiences. I am in the midst of kindergarten application in NYC and hope of her getting into the gifted school and testing (what if she has a day where she just won't respond?)
Perhaps I should just enjoy her gifts in music. I also told DH that I thought the music would be excellent in getting her to focus. She is so high energy combined with visual spatial.
I know that so many people here struggle with getting the right education for their children. And I have more options in NYC. But it is also manuevering to ensure a spot. There are a lot of bright kids.
What do I want from you? Who has experience with the musically gifted, not exactly prodigy, but getting close. I sat in the lesson today, being the first. He expects her to find the notes to twinkle twinkle on her own at home. He played it and told her to find it at home. I thought, is he crazy?
Ren
