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Taking the class has caused me to Playing from the Neshama would practice the violin eight hours a
sing with more confidence and with a Daniel Heifetz started playing violin at day. “I would just walk around the
stronger voice! Mrs. Tal is always the age of five after seeing someone hallway singing my Yiddish songs,
patient and friendly. She makes the play violin on TV. He cried and cried because my mother always played Jan
class fun and exciting.” Penina Majeski until his parents bought him a violin. Peerce’s Yiddish songs on the record
shares her enthusiasm: “The class was The moment they brought the tiny vio- player. Jan Peerce was a Metropolitan
so much fun and we learned so much. lin into the house, he opened the front opera singer when I started my career.
I now know the correct way to use my door of the house, put the violin under I had the same manager as he did,
voice. Singing is such a gift.” his chin and yelled to the people and we became good friends. For me,
across the street, “Hey, look at me!” it was a blessing to go to Jan Peerce’s
Mrs. Tal asked her father to His parents said, “Gevalt! We have a home for Shabbos together with my
address her Bais Yaakov class, with little performer on our hands!” When parents, and having my mother sit
the hope that her students will gain a it became obvious that young Daniel right next to Jan Peerce, who would
deeper understanding of the impor- was a natural at the violin, his parents stand up at the Shabbos table and
tance of emotion and expression. “My did not listen to their friends, who bentch in the most glorious voice. To
father believes musical expression is advised that they take their violin be able to give that gift to my parents
as important as technical skills,” prodigy out of school to perform. They was one of the greatest joys of my life.”
remarks Mrs. Tal. “I wanted my stu- wanted him to have a normal child-
dents to hear the first-hand stories hood. So he attended public school After attending the conservatory,
and amazing experiences of a world- until the age of 16, when, as a high Mr. Heifetz won a national competi-
class concert violinist who has spent school junior, he auditioned at the tion at the age of 20 and made his
his life devoted to music and playing Curtis Institute of Music, the most debut at Lincoln Center at 21. He was
from his neshama, as well as how respected conservatory in the country immediately signed by the most
Yiddishkeit helped shape his career. I – and the only all-scholarship one. His important manager in the world, who
also wanted to show them something acceptance, by the director himself, lived in New York, Sol Hurok, of “S.
many of them had never been changed his life. Hurok Presents,” and started perform-
exposed to before: hearing a famous ing. Hurok was also the manager for
classical violinist perform right in Leaving home as a teenager, Daniel Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, and other
front of them!” had no social life, no friends. He well-known performers. Mr. Heifetz
THE BEARMAN REICH NER TAMID MONTESSORI SCHOOL 2N0Roe1wgi6sAt-cr2acte0ipotn1in7g
The Montessori Advantage
Combines the Montessori method with Jewish values Torah, T’filah and Chagim Shira Gryll sgryll.design@gmail.com
Builds knowledge and character
Fosters independence and self-esteem
Prepares children for K-12 education at any school Noa Goldman, DIRECTOR
Features hands-on educational materials
6214 Pimlico Road
Baltimore, MD 21209
410.358.6448
nertamidmontessoripreschool@gmail.com
Cultivates social, intellectual and emotional development A Maryland Excel School
Fully licensed and validated Montessori School by The Maryland State Department of Education | Professional Teaching Staff since 1987.
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sing with more confidence and with a Daniel Heifetz started playing violin at day. “I would just walk around the
stronger voice! Mrs. Tal is always the age of five after seeing someone hallway singing my Yiddish songs,
patient and friendly. She makes the play violin on TV. He cried and cried because my mother always played Jan
class fun and exciting.” Penina Majeski until his parents bought him a violin. Peerce’s Yiddish songs on the record
shares her enthusiasm: “The class was The moment they brought the tiny vio- player. Jan Peerce was a Metropolitan
so much fun and we learned so much. lin into the house, he opened the front opera singer when I started my career.
I now know the correct way to use my door of the house, put the violin under I had the same manager as he did,
voice. Singing is such a gift.” his chin and yelled to the people and we became good friends. For me,
across the street, “Hey, look at me!” it was a blessing to go to Jan Peerce’s
Mrs. Tal asked her father to His parents said, “Gevalt! We have a home for Shabbos together with my
address her Bais Yaakov class, with little performer on our hands!” When parents, and having my mother sit
the hope that her students will gain a it became obvious that young Daniel right next to Jan Peerce, who would
deeper understanding of the impor- was a natural at the violin, his parents stand up at the Shabbos table and
tance of emotion and expression. “My did not listen to their friends, who bentch in the most glorious voice. To
father believes musical expression is advised that they take their violin be able to give that gift to my parents
as important as technical skills,” prodigy out of school to perform. They was one of the greatest joys of my life.”
remarks Mrs. Tal. “I wanted my stu- wanted him to have a normal child-
dents to hear the first-hand stories hood. So he attended public school After attending the conservatory,
and amazing experiences of a world- until the age of 16, when, as a high Mr. Heifetz won a national competi-
class concert violinist who has spent school junior, he auditioned at the tion at the age of 20 and made his
his life devoted to music and playing Curtis Institute of Music, the most debut at Lincoln Center at 21. He was
from his neshama, as well as how respected conservatory in the country immediately signed by the most
Yiddishkeit helped shape his career. I – and the only all-scholarship one. His important manager in the world, who
also wanted to show them something acceptance, by the director himself, lived in New York, Sol Hurok, of “S.
many of them had never been changed his life. Hurok Presents,” and started perform-
exposed to before: hearing a famous ing. Hurok was also the manager for
classical violinist perform right in Leaving home as a teenager, Daniel Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, and other
front of them!” had no social life, no friends. He well-known performers. Mr. Heifetz
THE BEARMAN REICH NER TAMID MONTESSORI SCHOOL 2N0Roe1wgi6sAt-cr2acte0ipotn1in7g
The Montessori Advantage
Combines the Montessori method with Jewish values Torah, T’filah and Chagim Shira Gryll sgryll.design@gmail.com
Builds knowledge and character
Fosters independence and self-esteem
Prepares children for K-12 education at any school Noa Goldman, DIRECTOR
Features hands-on educational materials
6214 Pimlico Road
Baltimore, MD 21209
410.358.6448
nertamidmontessoripreschool@gmail.com
Cultivates social, intellectual and emotional development A Maryland Excel School
Fully licensed and validated Montessori School by The Maryland State Department of Education | Professional Teaching Staff since 1987.
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