Benefits When Your Music Teacher Belongs to MTACA: A teacher who is a member of MTACA is a professional educator who is earnest and sincere in assuming the responsibilities of the profession. Opportunities are provided to students for performance and competition:
We are interested in your child’s music education. We will do our best to develop it to the fullest extent and will seek to make music a part of your child’s life – to enjoy now and in years to come. If you are an adult who would like to approach music as a long-term recreational or cultural interest, we can teach you. What can music study do for you or your child? Here are some thoughts from well-known individuals: “Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.” - Aristotle “She (Grandmother) said, ‘I paid good money for that piano, and you’re going to play it!’ And I did. She told me that music would take me where I needed to go. It gave discipline…structure. It would help my reading and memory. It did that, too. It was the means to everything.”
“I loved the way the piano felt, the way it sounded. I always was drawn to it. There was a time, though, when I wanted to stop, because I was more concerned with doing average 11- and 12-year-old things. She (Mother) said, ‘You can take a break, because I know you might be a little overwhelmed, but you need to keep playing.’ Now, I wonder: If she hadn’t told me that, who would I be?”
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