和淘宝小提琴老师的一次交流
3月23日,淘宝出色完成了铃木小提琴第三册的毕业演出。我一方面为他感到高兴,一方面也想到也许淘宝在小提琴上真的有点“天赋”:他的学琴进度远快于周围的同龄小朋友。现在范德堡大学音乐学院的铃木小提琴课上,和他水平差不多的同学都是比他年龄大很多的哥哥姐姐。我想:我是不是应该给淘宝换一个更高水平的老师和一个更有挑战的环境呢? 3月24日,我和淘宝现在的小提琴老师Tina就此问题进行了一次坦率而真诚的沟通。她很理解我,也支持我。她觉得淘宝最好是淘宝能够和她把第四册学完,然后再换老师。下面是我们的对话结束以后Tina给我发的邮件,和我的回信。 Tina的邮件: Ran, Jessica was an amazing violin student many years ago. When she was in her 20’s she struggled to decide between medicine and music for her career. She did advanced degrees in both subjects but finally chose medicine. She went first to Stanford in premed, then came home to the university of Kentucky for her violin master’s degree, then got into medical school at the university of Kentucky. I always tell high school students that if they are trying to choose between music and anything else, to choose the other thing. Music is so competitive that the only people who should go into it are the people who cannot imagine themselves doing anything else. I appreciated our discussion last night....