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, the music institution moved to the secondary school building 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 our music school for the next academic year. But here you need to understand that a music school is not about packing a 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.”
He created the fundamental formula for the successful operation of any music school. Here she is:
“In the profession of a music school teacher, two completely different professions have been combined... The essence of one of them is self-reproduction, the education of one’s own kind - a future professional musician. The other is the professional musical education of a 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 each 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, the highest professionalism, and the life position of a caring person allowed her 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, special conditions were created for her: students went to her home. 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 in music schools in Russia for many years. 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.
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, the music institution moved to the secondary school building 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.
Olga Mezhueva mother of one of the music school students:
“The Department of Education simply did not renew the lease for our music school for the next academic year. But here you need to understand that a music school is not about packing a 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.”
Over the past three years, the management of the music school has received verbal notifications from the administration of the secondary school that, starting from the next academic year, their presence in this building is extremely undesirable.
Dmitry German Director of the Arkady Ostrovsky Music School:
“As we receive these notifications in the future, the next contract is extended for a year, we receive it, we tolerate it, we accept it, and we move on. This year, in addition to verbal warnings, also verbally by telephone, we were asked to consider the building of another secondary school so that we could move there for the next academic year. This room is suitable for us in a small part, we can conduct individual classes there. We need classes for group lessons and solfeggio, musical literature, choir and orchestra classes. In order to rebuild such premises, you need permission from the owner of the building - the Department of Education - and you need money. They will not give us permission or money, as they explained to us. For all 77 years the school has not had its own premises. In a decree of the Moscow government in 2009, the construction of a building for our school was planned. The resolution is valid, but it has not been implemented. The building has not been built. Until the time when the music school’s own premises are built, it cannot be removed from the existing premises if this transfer causes a deterioration in the conditions of educational activities. We already have several people enrolled in preschool groups for next year. Today I saw the order that was sent to us that we will have a new location. Until then, we had no reason not to conduct reception in this room, since, apart from verbal warnings, I did not have any papers in my hands.”
The management of the secondary school has its own truth.
Irina Baburina director of school No. 117:
“We are not renewing the lease due to the school growing. If we usually opened nine first grades, then this year there are 14 of them. Not only that, but we also have about 80 people on the waiting list who want to get into our school. Of course, in these conditions - the absence of an entire floor, a passage, an entire staircase, and so on, there is a catastrophic lack of space for the building where the elementary school is located. We already talked about this and warned the head of the music school two years ago. And they offered to solve their own issues. At one time, various options were offered, I don’t know why the management of the music school did not take advantage of this. Last year, approximately the same situation arose, but then the situation was somewhat better for us, so we decided to extend it for another year, but we already warned then that the situation would worsen, and next year we would raise the issue of terminating the lease . And the issue of extending the lease or terminating the lease is not decided by the school director, this issue is decided by a special commission. The school's owner is the Department of Education. We don’t have the capacity, we have seven preschools and four school buildings that are all overcrowded.”
The Department of Culture of the Moscow government, to which the music school is subordinate, asked me to write a request. But so far the capital’s officials have not responded to Business FM.