fore their first car. (That's getting priorities straight, isn't it?) I was 8. My teacher was Mme Edith de Kresz, sister-in-law of Geza de Kresz, pioneering Hungarian Canadian violinist, founder of the Hart House String Quartet (1924) and conductor of various Toronto orchestras. Edit-neni, a leading piano teacher in the Hungarian community, was my parents' obvious choice. I called her Edit-neni , the appropriate way to address an older, respected Hungarian lady. I suppose she saw a musical spark in me early on. She indulged me to an incredible degree, asking, "And what shall we do today"? We looked at books of art photography, or paintings, read from Antoine de Saint-Exupery enfrancais, listened to orchestral recordings and snacked on real '50s health food. Although she was in her 60s she acted like a proto-hippie free spirit. She rode her bicycle. I found her one day standing on her head - doing yoga. One November Saturday, we took the ferry to the Toronto Islands and she jumped into Lake Ontario for a refreshing swim, while I stood on the shore in my parka. Maybe it was a yogic thing. Musically speaking, Edith-neni was an internationalist, teaching me piano music by a wide range of European and North American composers. Controversial with my parents was her teaching the music of Russian and Soviet-era composers like Stravinsky, A ram Khachaturian, et al, as well as the three B classics and Hungarian composers: hard for my parents to take since the Soviet re-occupation of Hungary in October 1956 made us refugees. Musical tolerance, which I learned by example, has stood me in good stead. She was a Bart6k fanatic: I was musically weaned on Bart6k at her knee. I have a hunger for Magyar and other folk melodies and rhythms to this day. I don't want to leave the impression that she didn't love and teach Romantic, Classical era and Baroque composers - she also taught the piano 'standards' . Around '64, when I entered St. Michael's College School, my focus shifted to the bassoon. ... Time ... My list of teachers also reveals less than an hour spent with ragtime composer and pianist Eubie Blake (1883 - 1983); & with composer W. Lutoslawsky; a few hours in total with composers John Cage, Lou Harrison and Morton Feldman. Each experience was life-altering and I feel honoured to carry on aspects of their wisdom. After 34 years I'm still learning from Sterling Beckwith and from mrdangam and percussion master, Trichy Sankaran, both of whom I first encountered at York. ... and places. My teacher list also covers much musical geography. Starting in Hungary, moving to North America, it shifts focus to India. My studies settled on the music of West and Central Java, Indonesia: suling (bamboo ring flute), rebab (Sundanese fiddle), kacapi (Sundanese zither), kendang (drums), singing and the several different types of gong-chime and metalophone instruments of the Sundanese and Javanese gamelan. I studied in Indonesia, here, and the USA. I've developed a career around the suling and gamelan in its various guises. But wide ranging mentors contributed to my passion for music making and teaching in both my native European and my adopted Asian traditions . It's an eventful ride! What advice would you give to someone considering teaching as part of their career? Please don't take up teaching if you want a 'regular job': there are easier ways of making a living which don't entail making the life of vulnerable students miserable. But it's a two-way street. One of my profs interviewed students by asking: "Now that it's clear what I can offer you, what can you offer me?" Peiformer and educator Andrew Timar teaches for York U., the Toronto District School Board and the RCM, and does workshops for private schools and organizations. His Game/an Resource will be in 3 TDSB schools in September, and about 15 other schools during the year, reaching thousands of students. Now entering its 6th year, it might just be the only school board-embedded curriculum-based World Music programme in Canada. Andrew is a founding member of the Evergreen Club Contemporary Game/an, Canada's first game/an peiforming group. They have premiered some 200 works, released 6 CDs and peiform around the world. Festival Location Bayview Hill Community Centre 114 Spadina Road, Richmond Hill, Ontario Tel: 905 .508.0789 Fax: 905.508.2893 Website: www.artsrichmondhill.com November 25-27, 2005 Deadline for applications: Oct. 8, 2005 Festival Gala Concert Jan. 14, 2006 ~ ------- 54 WWW . THEWHOLENOTE.COM S EPTE M BER 1 - O CTOBER 7 2005 Back to Ad Index
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