Iona Mclaren

Can anyone become an accomplished violinist?

Shinichi Suzuki certainly believed that learning music is like learning a language, and to be ‘fluent’ in an instrument merely depends on starting early enough

Shinichi Suzuki with young violinists at a teaching course in Wembley, London, in 1980. [Getty Images] 
issue 11 February 2023
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