Through listening and repetition, each child learns to speak in his native tongue. To learn to speak, he listens to as many as 70 repetitions of a word, phrase or sentence in a given time period. The child must “repeat, rework and reiterate” to ultimately make that word his own and move on to the next.

Some beginners are hesitant at first, but often progress quickly, and gain an enriched appreciation of the music that they listen to and what they play on the piano. Most are surprised at how far they go in such a short length of time (see What People Say?).

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A student can then express that musical understanding in assorted improvised movements. The body becomes a real-time interpreter of the musical concepts expressed through motion. In this educational approach, the student is then ready to bring this well-developed understanding of music to the piano.

Béla Böszörményi-Nagy was one of the most important members of the generation of pianists after Bartók and Dohnányi. Bela studied piano with Ernö Dohnányi, attended Leo Weiner's classes in chamber music and Zoltán Kodály's composition classes. He gave the Budapest premier of Bartók's Third Piano Concerto, and won the coveted Liszt Prize for three consecutive years.

It is not only in the rose,
It is not only in the bird,
Not only where the rainbow glows,
Nor in the song of woman heard,
But in the darkest, meanest things
There always, always something sings.