“I Am Here!”
Subtitle: with Families
Why did you start a new program with families?
It was the real situation of families that inspired me, since at home children of different ages live together. I thought we could try to make music together – the whole family.
Was it easy?
No, it wasn’t. I tried out several forms of sessions to teach the older ones the attention to music and to one another. Both are equally important, and follow from each other in our program. Our chosen piece of beautiful music inspires the child, the baby in the cot or on the mother’s or father’s breast, and the older one, toddling or running around. Beautiful music comes from the same world from where we receive the most beautiful human emotions, sometimes in words, at other times without words.
Do the parents understand?
The parents who know my work understand. It was a great experience, an experience for life. The children to whom we turned with patience found their own feelings in belonging to us, some kind of security and faith that here, in this place, they are loved and accepted.
Did they understand this immediately?
No. It is much more difficult to focus attention in a loosely structured setting than in a restricted and well-defined situation. That is why six-year-olds are made to sit in the school-bench and taught to look straight ahead. Most of the children accept this obligatory situation and work within it.
Why don’t you teach in this way then?
I have other objectives. I would like to tune their attention with music to be intimate and voluntary. I work long term. I trust that the chosen pieces of beautiful music inspire the children recreating their souls with their special vibrations. In these children, there is space for noble emotions and joy in the complete attention to others.
What makes it difficult for children to accept one another?
Jealousy. They are jealous of one another at nursery school and at school, they compete and sometimes suffer for an advantage. Within the family structure the situation can be even more desperate. By inviting, including all the siblings together in my group, such pains become apparent.
Isn’t it better to teach children how to accept their siblings?
There are countless ways of preparing a little child to endure, bear and even accept the emotional burden awaiting him/her in life. In my experience real art provides resources by permeating our skin and reaching the deepest of our being. I try to teach my children not to frolic away from musical messages, but to snuggle closer to them and receive them.
Do you reach your objectives?
It touches my heart when any one of them makes it clear that they have found their own brilliance in a drop of water. That they have glanced at the most beautiful part of their being. Gábor was born with underdeveloped hands and as he grows, he continues to have difficulty. His soul, like a mountain crystal, reflects rays from many directions. It was the eighth time that he came to the course when he ran straight to me his forehead almost touching my forehead, shouting “I am here!”