Children's music school number 8 named after Arkady Ostrovsky, the oldest school in the South-Western Administrative District, is being evicted. She began her work 77 years ago. Nine years ago music venue moved into the building secondary school on Garibaldi Street, now at number 117. The music school occupied the first floor, where more than 400 children study. The parents raised the alarm.
This is a continuation of the post about children being encouraged to play football and stadiums being demolished. Simultaneously they do it if they don’t know. Stadiums interfere with the predatory development of Moscow, get in the way and get underfoot. Musical music also gets in the way. The building should not be three meters high - pianos, a music library, everything. Why does a school need a building if a shopping and office center of thirty floors can be built there? In short, no football or music, they made bike paths for you, so go for a ride.
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about at the same time - absolutely exactly - (for money, of course).
“The Department of Education simply did not renew the lease for the next academic year our music school. But here you need to understand that a music school is not about packing your suitcase and leaving, it’s at least 20 instruments, at least five of which are pianos, there is no elevator in the building, and just like that, let’s quickly drag it all to another place and start learning further children. This is impossible, because when we moved into this building, the renovation took almost a year to make these premises suitable for a music school. How long will this move take? Naturally, children will not be able to study in September. Plus, if the Department of Education doesn’t renew this lease agreement next year, will we be moving again? There are about 430 children studying there now. We have 8-12 people per place every year upon admission.”
The school started its work October 2, 1940. Over the decades of its existence, Children's Music School No. 8 moved from district to district, changing its names several times: “Leninsky District”, “Kirovsky District”, “Oktyabrsky District”...
But one short name remained unchanged for it: “The School of Leviticus.”
Created the fundamental formula successful work any music school. Here it is:
“The profession of a music school teacher combines two completely different professions. The essence of one of them is self-reproduction, the education of one’s own kind - a future professional musician. The other is professional music education future non-professional. Each of them requires from the teacher its own, separate, but necessarily the highest, professionalism. And it’s a disaster when leaders of all ranks, and behind them teachers, try to measure one profession by the standards of another.”
Both he and the brilliant team of teachers who worked with him all together created a school of kindness and respect for each other, restlessness and constant search.
This is how the Eighth Musical Theater was for all 30 years, while Yuri Efimovich Levit was its director.
She tries to be like this even today - without him.
Sharikova Maria Alexandrovna
Piano teacher, head of the piano department of Children's Music School No. 8 from 1951 to 1978.
Maybe this photograph can at least convey to you a little of that charm, that amazing light, the combination of wisdom and lightness, simplicity and aristocracy that emanated from this woman.
A brilliantly educated and erudite person, Maria Alexandrovna was, first of all, a teacher and musician. By the grace of God, she felt every child with amazing precision.
“There is no single method,” she asserted, “with each new student a new method comes to the class.”
Studying in Maria Alexandrovna's class was very easy and very difficult. It's easy because it's interesting. And it was difficult because it was shameful to whine, let loose, or try to deceive in her presence.
For more than 20 years, Maria Alexandrovna headed the piano department of Children's Music School No. 8. For several decades, both she and the wonderful team of pianist teachers at Children's Music School No. 8 formed those high demands for culture, honesty and decency in music, which the Eighth Musical School was distinguished by in the past, and which we try to follow today.
Hundreds of music teachers from Moscow and Russia, who were in love with Maria Alexandrovna, considered the teachers of Children's Music School No. 8 lucky. After all, everyday communication with her during tests, exams, and concerts provided a truly higher pedagogical education.
German A.S.
The now deceased, dear Petya Merkuryev writes about another teacher:
About Lyudmila Nikolaevna we can safely say that her destiny took place.
In 1944, she came to work at Moscow music school No. 8 and worked there all her life, despite repeated invitations to the “Merzlyakovsky” school (Academic music school at the Moscow Conservatory).
Lukovnikova graduated from the Moscow Conservatory after the war, studied with V.V. Sofronitsky.
She lived with her husband Andrei Efimovich Lukovnikov, who was the director of the All-Union House of Composers for over 25 years, raised a wonderful son, was a sincere friend with her daughter-in-law, and an adored grandmother of two grandchildren.
The Lukovnikovs’ house was always open to everyone; their small apartment on Polyanka seemed to accommodate the population of the entire country. Only scoundrels and dull people were not there: they were afraid of Lyudmila Nikolaevna.
In her judgments, she was sometimes merciless, but no one was offended by her, because they knew: her statements came from the heart, and her impeccable musical taste, highest professionalism, life position a caring person was allowed to be uncompromising.
The students adored her. In her native Children's Music School No. 8, she was an unconditional authority. IN recent years, when Lyudmila Nikolaevna could no longer walk, they were created for her special conditions: The students went to her house. Classes took place between injections, IVs, massages, but this did not affect the quality of the lessons. As a methodologist, L. Lukovnikova had no equal; her developments have been used for many years in music schools Russia. She conducted teaching practice at the school at the conservatory.
Lukovnikova has been awarded many titles and awards; she is one of the few primary-level teachers who has been awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
L. Lukovnikova was buried at the Vvedensky cemetery, not far from the graves of the great artists A. Tarasova, M. Reisen, M. Maksakova.