"Numerous neurologists, pediatricians, biologists, and psychologists associated with universities and research institutes have come to believe that there are critical periods associated with surges of neurological connections and synapses that take place prenatally and during early childhood.
"The research seems to indicate that if a very young child has no opportunity to develop a music listening vocabulary, the cells that would have been used to establish that hearing sense will at best be directed to another sense. No amount of compensatory education at a later time will be able to completely offset the handicap.
"Informal and formal guidance and instruction in music at an early age can serve the child throughout his or her adult life. The goal is not to make the child a professional musician. Should that happen, all well and good. What is perhaps even more important is that children will be prepared to feel comfortable with music, when both listening and performing, as they pursue their normal daily lives and enjoy life to the fullest" (Foreword to Music Play by Edwin Gordon).
About the Teacher
Mrs. Amy Rondeau has ten years of classical ballet training and has taught for two. She earned her Bachelor of Music Education degree from Brigham Young University-Idaho and is Level 1 Music Learning Theory certified.
