MUSIC
Nothing but Music
Valeriy Stanislavskiy
Lyceum BSPU,
Blagoveshchensk (Russia)
My music path began at the age of 8,
when my parents got me into the branch of
Central children's art school at the school No.
9, which I had attended before entering the
Lyceum. Now there is no such a thing, but that
time the music teachers worked several days
a week at ordinary schools, teaching the
elementary schoolchildren musical basics and
selecting the best of them to study directly at
the Central children's art school. It turned out
that a button accordion teacher came to
school that year and therefore I was assigned
to learn to play this instrument. That decision
was also influenced by the fact that after my
great-grandfather`s death, who I never had a
chance to meet, there had been a small
button accordion “Ogonyok” left. My great-
grandfather liked to play his button accordion
and he usually came out to sit on zavalinka in
front of his house on summer evenings, and
almost the entire village used to gather
around and listen (later, I tried to do the same,
but with less success – unfortunately, there
had already been less people in the village).
The “Ogonyok” was exactly my first musical
instrument to begin the whole thing with. But
first, I had to put it in order: clean out the dust,
polish the valves, seal the holes in the fur ...
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SUNRISE
The first year of study turned out to be
rather contradictory: in December, the
teacher went to hospital for half a year
because of a head injury, so I had to urgently
look for a replacement. After some time, Irina
Gennadyevna Kalita started to work at the
school, and she managed to see talent in me
and offered to enter Central children's art
school . She has been teaching me for the last
ten years, being exactly the person who I owe
for all the success, awards and achievements.
The following years were very tough,
since I had to learn hard, to play the
instrument for several hours per session,
practicing to play the same parts or measures
for many times. However, as the years passed,
it became easier and easier; I got the ability to
improvise and even play various melodies by
ear. Thanks to music and constant live
performances, I learned to control my
excitement, to be more logical and
reasonable. Also, as you get older it becomes
clear that introduction to the Rudiments of
Music and the art of performance helps to
develop memory skills and to be better
educated and more erudite compared to
those who are not involved in music. Now I am
studying in the 10th grade of Central children's
art school and this is probably my last year of
learning to play the button accordion, but I'm
not at all going to stop with music, because,
as we know, there is no such a thing as an ex-
musician.
February 2019 №2