Private Music Studio Guides by Mimi Butler

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Mimi Butler teaches violin and viola privately to 20 to 25 students weekly in her Haddonfield, NJ home. Once a month, all of the students play in a chamber music class. Along with Pam Fay, violist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, Butler runs the "Summer String Festival," a two week day camp every June & July in Cherry Hill, NJ. Learn More Here>>

I will be offering 6 one-hour music writing (theory) lessons to my students for $250. This does not include the books and the lessons must be taken during a 6 month period. Student will write a piece during the last lesson to be played in their class and possibly performed. If you wish to pay for any lessons by credit card, please contact my assistant, Jessie Lee at optimist2020@verizon.net.

MRS BUTLER’S WEEKLY LESSON SCHEDULE STARTING SEPT. 6
       
        Monday
        10:00 am    Griffin
        4:15        Cohen  
        5:00        Slocum
        6:00        Radu
        7:00        Bu
        8:00        Hozey   
       

       Tuesday
        3:00        Finley
        4:00        Romero
        5:00        Poliero       
        5:45        Griffin (2)       
        6:30        Driben
        7:15        Warwick
        8:00        Vaughn

        Wednesday
        5:45                       
        6:30        Newell
        7:30        Lin
        8:30        S. Benjamin (once a month)
       
        Thursday
       10:30 am Naumick
        4:15        Sadwin
        5:30        Taber      
        6:15        Kwak
        7:15        Mills
        8:00        Komand / Hudson
      

Reprinted from the internet:

Music lessons may help keep the brain healthy as people grow older, a new study suggests.

Researchers from the University of Kansas Medical Center divided 70 healthy adults, ages 60 to 83, into three groups based on their amount of musical experience: no musical training, one to nine years of music lessons, and at least 10 years of musical study.

More than half of those with a music background studied piano, about one-quarter played woodwind instruments such as the flute or clarinet, and others played string instruments, percussion or brass instruments.

The participants -- who had similar fitness and education levels and were free of Alzheimer's disease -- were given several cognitive tests. Those with the greatest amount of musical experience did best on these tests of mental acuity, followed by those with less musical study and those who never took music lessons.

Compared to non-musicians, the people with a high degree of musical experience had much higher scores on the cognitive tests, including those related to visuospatial memory, naming objects, and the brain's ability to adapt to new information (cognitive flexibility).

"Musical activity throughout life may serve as a challenging cognitive exercise, making your brain fitter and more capable of accommodating the challenges of aging," lead researcher Brenda Hanna-Pladdy said in a journal news release.

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