TINSLETOWN TIDBITS . . .
Lee Stockner is a very special young man in New York who teaches piano to autistic children. Understanding the limited attention span, Lee developed a system using colors as a teaching tool. His system is called “Occupational Octaves” and was the subject of a recent 10-minute, 8 second documentary that was in the top 100 of over 5,000 worldwide submissions. This short film was scheduled to screen at Pasadena Film Festival, which was cancelled due to the CoronaVirus. We do need to see something that uplifts the human spirit so below is a link to the documentary and I invite you to take a few minutes and watch the this joyful film.
This is the story in Lee’s own words:
“Ten years into my piano teaching career, I met a young man with Autism. Although I had no experience in special education, his mom asked me to give him piano lessons and we began working together. That student had comprehension skills strong enough to learn to read traditional music notation. However, once I began working with K-12 students with Autism, many lacked those skills and could never learn to read music. I let necessity be the mother of innovation and created a new language of music where the students wear color coded finger bands with matching colors on the keyboard. Although the teaching approach is different, my students learn and perform the same pieces of music you’d learn in traditional piano lessons - ranging from Bach to Beethoven.”
Beverly Cohn, renowned film critic from Southern
California sent this story and I hope you will take a few minutes to watch the film - It is amazing! ________________________________________________________________  Album Release Jerome Jordano
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