Kendall Pamphlet on Talent Education

Talent Education and Suzuki: What Every American Teacher Should Know About Shinichi Suzuki

Original pamphlet on Suzuki Method by John Kendall and related artifacts - now in the ISA Online Archive.

PDF: Talent Education and Suzuki: What Every American Teacher Should Know About Shinichi Suzuki

Pictured here is the original cover and “Introduction" of John Kendall’s publication Talent Education and Suzuki: What Every American Teacher Should Know About Shinichi Suzuki. The title page has a signed quote by Dr. Suzuki from 1966, the pamphlet’s publication date. The inside cover features a picture of the first Japanese 10 Children Tour Group that came to America in 1964, and the original “Foreward" from Kendall. [NOTE - The current printing of this pamphlet is available from Alfred Music with updates by Kendall from 1978]

Also included is a signed postcard of an original oil painting of Dr. Suzuki by Kozo Yoshihara that hangs in the Suzuki Memorial House Museum in Matsumoto, and several photographs from the March 1966 Annual Graduation Concert in Tokyo with more than 1400 Suzuki students performing.

The ISA thanks Beverly Char for contributing these valuable and fascinating documents to our Online Archive for the wider Suzuki community to enjoy.