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Founded 18 months ago on the site of a former hot-springs resort, the stone-and-redwood monastery compound at Tassajara was purchased for $300,000 by a group of wealthy Zen enthusiasts. There is a Japanese roshi, or Zen master, Shunryu Suzuki, 65, who gives guidance in meditation. The American director of the monastery, Richard Baker, 32, is a Berkeley graduate who specialized in Oriental studies. His 60 fulltime novices include college students-for some reason, most come from Minnesota and Texas-professors, a psychiatrist, an importer, a bookshop owner and a former naval commander. There is also...
...monastery itself is so new that even Suzuki is unwilling to predict total success. He is pleased by the dedication of his students, even though he observes that "Americans have too much freedom." Baker is even more enthusiastic. "There are more potential students of Zen here than there are in Japan," he insists. "We are a bunch of Americans trying to find out what religion is-and that is real religion...
...Young. Today, while many Oriental string players get their major training in the U.S. with such top teachers as Gregor Piatigorsky and Juilliard's Ivan Galamian, home-grown instruction has turned into a near industry. The most famous Oriental string teacher is Japan's Shinichi Suzuki, 70, whose revolutionary start-'em-young technique produced tiny Miss Kasuya-one of a group of Suzuki prodigies now touring the U.S.-and her note-perfect Mozart. Suzuki's Talent Education Institute, founded in 1946, takes in pupils at the age of three, subjects them first to an intensive course...
Perhaps the Suzuki method will in time overcome the U.S. shortage. Until it does, chances are that more and more orchestras will look to the Far East. The Orientals are not only more available but competent and eager as well. As Isaac Stern explains: "A top-class Tokyo violinist starts at less than $100 a month, while in America today an orchestral musician is a member of an elite, well-paid profession." Adds Master Teacher Galamian, only partly in jest: "There was a time when all the finest violinists were Jewish and came from Odessa. Maybe now they will...
...talk of old times at Ozuki, the Divine Wind two decades later was barely a zephyr. Eying a row of modern U.S. trainers on the familiar runway, Shipyard Salesman Tatsuo Suzuki, 43, wished that "our planes had been as good as these in those days." Ah, rasped Hotel Manager Jumpei Watanabe, "if our planes had been this good, we wouldn't be here...