Small fry have been balking at piano lessons for a long time; the new distraction of TV often makes things even tougher. But Music Teacher Bernard Gabriel, 37, thinks he knows how to win: make sure the kids have fun. Sometimes this leads to a circus atmosphere in his Manhattan studio. Says Teacher Gabriel: "I've never yet heard of a child who hated circuses."
One of Gabriel's pupils last week was a ten-year-old named Bobbie. He sweated and thumped at Schumann's The Happy Farmer, finally burst into tears. Gabriel handed Bobbie a baseball, told him, "Here, just for fun, see if you...
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