Making Musical Memories This Holiday Season
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at any time of the year, but we cherish most the times during the holidays we
spend with our family members. Our memories involve singing favorite holiday
tunes or listening to inspirational music together. Penny Gardner is a
homeschooler of seven, and the
author of The Charlotte Mason Study Guide and The Nine-Note
Recorder Method. Visit <A
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to see how your school, community group, church or homeschooling
family can make some music memories this holiday season using
the Nine-Note Recorder Method.
MusicKit is introducing a new kind of children's literature this
season. The company's first published book, My Grandmother's
Garden, proves to be an engaging, true story told from the point
of view of a young girl, Aubyn. One fine day Aubyn and her
grandmother paint watercolors of flowers in grandmother's
garden by the San Francisco Bay. Their paintings create
memories that last, and give comfort and solace even when Grandfather dies.
The story is told through song with musical notes and words
printed large enough to encourage children to read along. A
CD accompanies the book with the song sung by noted Berkeley,
CA, folk-singer, Laurie Lewis. Visit
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This fall and winter why not spend some family time together
singing? The Lester Family Audio Tapes will help your family
make your musical experiences fun as well as educational. The
Lester family has recorded 4 educational cassettes that can
teach your family, or class, how to sing in 2, 3, and 4 part
harmony. Each song is sung with the soprano, alto, tenor and
bass sung separately, and then sung
again with all parts sung together. Visit
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Jennifer Russell directs a youth community choir for the
Character & Ethics Project in the City of Glendale, California.
The participants range in age from 6 to 18, where they
choreograph music. The participants are celebrating a year of character &
ethics
Sugarbone is also pleased to present its newest product,
Stanley - The Computer with a Heart. This CD is filled with
catchy tunes and lyrics that children enjoy, understand, and
sing along with. The children learn about the components of
the computer, its many uses, and its ease of operation. It brings
about a familiarity that children need.
Pat Daly has been teaching kindergarten in Sayreville, New
Jersey for over 15 years. She has a classroom full of
computers and Stanley has become a shining star. Learn more
about The Virtue Songs, This Where I Live and
Stanley - The Computer with a Heart by visiting
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Looking for some soothing music for little ones?
MetroMusic, Inc., a leading producer of classical music for
children, expands the boundaries of classical music enjoyment
by blending the enchanting rhythms of nature with the timeless melodies of the
classics. The selections invite children to wake up joyfully and go to sleep
peacefully hand-in-hand with
nature.
Send your little ones off to dreamland with this soothing
collection of classics perfectly suited for bedtime. The Classical
Child® Early To Bed features the timeless melodies of Mozart,
Bach, Brahms and other masters performed on flute, harp, piano
and harpsichord. Each selection is accompanied by a gentle
serenade of crickets and cicadas, creating the sense of being
embraced by the warmth and magic of a summer's evening. Visit
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How to Sing & Dance with Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers & Kindergartners Too!
This program includes:
*12 Complete Step-by-Step Audio Cassette Lessons & Video -
From Hello to Goodbye.
*Features Traditional Folk Music
*No Musical Talent Necessary
*In-Service Trainings
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The following comments are from a recent online music chat
guest, Phyllis Unger Hiller, M.S., composer, author, educator
and child therapist.: "Ramo the Elephant has proven to be one
of the truly unique music products that encourages children
to learn, participate, understand, be expressive and to feel
good about themselves and others. It is ideal for students
needing remedial support and special education, as well.
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Musical instruments make treasured gifts. The Port
Washington Music House carries a fine line of instruments,
and educational toys for children of all ages. Drums, music
sets, whistles, sheet music, rhythm Instruments, xylophones
and toys are just some of the items you will find by visiting the company's
website.
The company also carries a line of decorative musical items
and has a wonderful selection of gift items. Visit 'Unique
Musical Gifts' to see a collection of items in this category
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Have a Happy Holiday Season!
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Stephen Farrow
>
> Get into the spirit of the season through music. Music is wonderful
> at any time of the year, but we cherish most the times during the holidays we
> spend with our family members. Our memories involve singing favorite holiday
> tunes or listening to inspirational music together.
Personally, I can think of very few things more likely to make me
projectile-vomit than the thought of sitting around listening to
inspirational music with my entire family. Not that it would ever
happen, because the thought of it would be less appealing to them than
it is to me.
As for singing holiday tunes, in my family that might actually be
dangerous.
Stephen
(is it too early to say Bah! Humbug!?)
--
"First of all, you're going to need a live chicken and a working
knowledge of Latin..."
Rhonda & Stephen N.
dangerous.
(is it too early to say Bah! Humbug!?)
It's never too early.
Steve N., getting out his SCROOGE albums and already counting the days
until December the 26th, medears.....
Too bad every holiday can't be Halloween.....
Stephen Farrow
Ha! This year, I get to "do" Christmas with my family for the first time
since 1997. I love my family dearly - and I haven't seen them in two
years - but Christmas with them goes on for rather a long time (it won't
be over on the 26th). And that's without the inevitable weirdness factor
from having been away so long (just being in England will be weird - I
honestly don't miss it). I'm looking forward to it (and I'm looking
forward to taking a trip that doesn't involve either working or
attending a funeral - it's been a while), but it's going to be quite
strange.
Ah well. At least this time I won't be heading back to London on an
overcrowded train on the 27th in order to go to work behind a shop
counter on the 28th. And this time someone else gets to do the cooking!
(I like cooking, but I cooked Christmas dinner last year in someone
else's kitchen, which was an entertaining experience, as was schlepping
the half-prepared food halfway across Toronto from my apartment to
theirs on two streetcars and the subway. This was the meal at which I
learned that some North Americans apparently have conceptual issues with
the idea of bread sauce... but I digress). Musical memories this holiday
season are likely to be provided largely by whichever very noisy toy I
decide to buy for my almost-three-year-old nephew, and by my Dad getting
drunk and singing rugby songs. I try to avoid Christmas music, simply
because I was in choirs for about 20 years and I've sung so much of it
that I don't need to listen to it ever again!
Stephen
(who will NOT be attending a performance of Handel's Messiah this
holiday season)
Bill
Steve, please don't use the "Hallowe'en comes but once a year" excuse as
a rationale for NOT dressing oddly and scaring children! This can -- and
should -- be done all year 'round! While handing out free candy to kids
all the time can be expensive (and dangerous!), I believe it's healthy
for children to believe in monsters and witches and goblins and ghouls.
Remember little Margaret O'Brien's near-orgasmic ecstacy in MEET ME IN
ST. LOUIS' Hallowe'en sequence? THAT'S what childhood's all about.
(That, plus reading comic books, watching cartoons and listening to show
albums, of course.)
Drumm
JWBOY5439
(gay)
Abe Hornberg
Bill
home-schoolers? >>
I wouldn't know, Abe, being a public-schooled, non-religionist myself.
;}
I think if more home-schooled fundamentalists listened to show tunes --
like SWEENEY TODD, COMPANY, FALSETTOS, FIORELLO!, SOUTH PACIFIC,
RAGTIME, etc. -- we, and they, would all be a lot better off. Of
course, these kids would probably have other problems, like Who's
better, Sondheim or ALW? (Smack that kid!), or Do you pronounce Broadway
with the accent on the first or second syllable? But I figure a brief
RATM Seminar will remedy all possible misconceptions. ("Headmistress
Horn, Coach Newport won't let me play on the Post-1975 Team, and I got
straight As in POMO Sung-Through British Imports!" "Shut up, kid, or
you'll find yourself in the outfield playing Blitzstein Ball!"
Drumm
Bushwhacker
Hear, hear!
Bill
up, kid, or you'll find yourself in the outfield playing Blitzstein
Ball!" >>
This kid is no doubt attending on a Kudisch Scholarship.
Rhonda & Stephen N.
Re: Making Musical Memories This Holiday Season
Group: rec.arts.theatre.musicals Date: Sat, Nov 24, 2001, 9:26am (EST-2)
From: bdr...@webtv.net (Bill)
home-schoolers?
I think if more home-schooled fundamentalists listened to show tunes --
would probably have other problems, like Who's better, Sondheim or ALW?
play on the Post-1975 Team, and I got straight As in POMO Sung-Through
British Imports!" "Shut up, kid, or you'll find yourself in the outfield
playing Blitzstein Ball!"
Nonetheless your coach is for home schooling 100 percent. Get those kids
away from their stupid, temporary peers and into the world of adults,
ASAP. (Oh and religiously, I'm a no-middle-man,
direct-line-to-God-type-myself.)
Karen Horn
: the idea of bread sauce... but I digress). Musical memories this holiday
: season are likely to be provided largely by whichever very noisy toy I
: decide to buy for my almost-three-year-old nephew,
:-D You REALLY hate your brother and your sister-in-law, huh? Just
wait. They WILL remember, and if you have a kid, he or she will
be getting a drum set....and lots of playdough.
: I try to avoid Christmas music, simply
: because I was in choirs for about 20 years and I've sung so much of it
: that I don't need to listen to it ever again!
What? You mean you don't listen to Alvin and the Chipmunks?
No Grandma Got Run Over by a Raindeer? No Cheech and Chong Santa Claus
and His Old Lady? "....a little bit more for Santa Claus... a little bit
MORE for Santa Claus ...and this would get the raindeer off, man? ...get
them off? ...are you kidding, man, they flew all the way around the
world, man."
Karen
Karen Horn
: Aren't show tunes a little, well, you know, for fundamentalist home-schoolers?
:
:
:
:
: (gay)
:
:
:
: Abe Hornberg
Ah, c'mon. Don we now our gay apparell...fa-la-lah.....
Karen
Karen Horn
: << Aren't show tunes a little, well, you know, for fundamentalist
Outfield? The kid would never make it into right field. Kid, grab
a toothbrush, you'll be scrubbing the tiles in the plexiglass water
tank for SBFP.
Karen
[note for our British friends: Right field is typically where you
stick the kid who can't play ball for shit.]
Stephen Farrow
>
> Stephen Farrow <sfa...@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> : the idea of bread sauce... but I digress). Musical memories this holiday
> : season are likely to be provided largely by whichever very noisy toy I
> : decide to buy for my almost-three-year-old nephew,
>
> :-D You REALLY hate your brother and your sister-in-law, huh? Just
> wait. They WILL remember, and if you have a kid, he or she will
> be getting a drum set....and lots of playdough.
Well, my brother and sister-in-law no longer live together...
It's not a question of 'hate' - it's simply the way we are. And, sure,
if I ever have children, my brother will take revenge - but then I'll
just have to take revenge for his revenge. And so on.
Yes, my brother and I have a perfectly healthy relationship. Why do you
ask?
>
> : I try to avoid Christmas music, simply
> : because I was in choirs for about 20 years and I've sung so much of it
> : that I don't need to listen to it ever again!
>
> What? You mean you don't listen to Alvin and the Chipmunks?
Nope.
> No Grandma Got Run Over by a Raindeer?
> No Cheech and Chong Santa Claus
> and His Old Lady? "....a little bit more for Santa Claus... a little bit
> MORE for Santa Claus ...and this would get the raindeer off, man? ...get
> them off? ...are you kidding, man, they flew all the way around the
> world, man."
Nope.
In the UK, we have so, so many worse examples of Christmas songs. I
mean, there's Slade's classic "Merry Christmas Everybody" for a start.
It's utterly terrifying. The combination of that and Cliff Richard could
easily put someone off music for life.
Actually, Cliff Richard's Christmas records could persuade me to convert
to Satanism if it would mean I'd never have to hear them again.
Stephen
Stephen & Rhonda
Re: Making Musical Memories This Holiday Season
tunes -- -- we, and they, would all be a lot better off. Of course,
these kids would probably have other problems, like Who's better,
Sondheim or ALW? (Smack that kid!), or "Headmistress Horn, Coach Newport
won't let me play on the Post-1975 Team, and I got straight As in POMO
Sung-Through British Imports!"
S: Nonetheless your coach is for home schooling 100 percent. Get those
kids away from their stupid, temporary peers and into the world of
adults, ASAP. (Oh and religiously, I'm a no-middle-man,
direct-line-to-God-type-myself.)
And Rhonda adds: No SNORTS!!!!!