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(by Leonidas D'Santiago)
Caracas, October 24, 1921, September 21, 2004
Musical studies
In 1937 she joins the José Ángel Lamas Music School
studying piano with Moisés Moleiro, music theory with Eduardo
Plaza, harmony with Antonio Estévez, and music history with J.B.
Plaza. In the year 1944, she studies Education at the New York
Teacher's College of the University of Columbia, and in 1945 enters the
Julliard School of Music in the same mention to finally retire from
Julliard School to register with the New York Dalcroze School where she
obtains the Music School Elementary Teaching Certificate
Diploma.
Back in Venezuela, she commits herself to musical pedagogy. She teaches
the Dalcroze method at the Teachers' Collage 'Gran Colombia', in
Caracas. Also teaches music theory with the Dalcroze method to the
Preparatory School of Music (currently, the 'Juan Manuel Olivares'
Music School). In 1958, she is part of the committee in charge of
designing and putting into practice the Musical Education programs for
the Ministry of Education preparing many teachers in workshops and
seminars. Between 1959 and 1963, she was National Supervisor for the
Ministry of Education. In 1961, she lectures a course to Schools'
Directors at the Teaches' Institute of Professional Improvement,
regarding the importance of musical education in the child's integral
formation. In 1972, upon her return to Venezuela after several years in
Paris, France, she founds and directs for 15 years the Experimental
School of Musical Pedagogy supported by the CONAC (the National Arts
Council). In year 1988, she teaches a semester of musical pedagogy at
the Central University of Venezuela's (UCV) School of Arts. She also
wrote educational texts, such as Harmony Exercise Notebook (Cuaderno de
Ejercicios de Armonía); The child and the music (El niño
y la música); and you, music and me, a compound of rhythmic
games, songs, letters and tales (Y tú, yo y la música, un
compendio de juegos rítmicos, canciones, letras y
cuentos).
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