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Review: Most students unprepared for university music studies

High school students in Canada are unprepared for advanced music studies at the university level.
This has been the biggest stumbling block for music educators concerned about maintaining and improving standards and for pianist and University of Western Ontario professor Damiana Bratuz, it's a cause that has motivated her to seek practical remedies for the situation.
On Monday Dr. Bratuz will conduct a workshop on developing the musical gifts of the Child at Conrad Grebel College.

The daylong session is sponsored by the Kitchener, branch of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers' Association, with funding from the Ontario Arts Council.
She brings a decade of experience in university piano teaching, in addition to her varied talents as concert performer, lecturer, linguist and author, to the special workshop.
The lecture-demonstration will be given, in Bratuz' own words, "not through any personal method, formulas or percepts, but by calling attention to certain natural processes and principles which are usually neglected or ignored, and which alone allow an organic development of human faculties - physical and intellectual."

On this theme, she will illustrate what such different personalities as Comaneci, Marceau and Klee have in common and how their artistry and achievements demonstrate the principles underlying musical excellence.

(By Pauline Durichen, Kitchener-Waterloo Record, April, 1979)