A Toy Symphony!

How would you like to make music with toys?  Leopold Mozart wrote a song called The Toy Symphony where toys make the music.  He wrote it because he wanted children to be able to play along with the regular adult orchestra.  Symphony means together (symph) + sound (phone), so the toys will make sounds together with the other instruments to create the music.  Listen for these toys: drums, shakers, and bird sounds. by Evie...

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Posted by on Jul 31, 2011 in Videos | 0 comments

What’s Opera?

by Terri Kelly Hmm…would you rather eat spinach or listen to opera? You might enjoy a bite-o-opera if you knew more about it. Opera is a singing play. In other words, pretend you’re sitting in a theater where live actors dress in costumes, the stage is decorated, and instead of saying the words, the performers sing the words. Libretto is the name for the words sung by the singers. Operas are performed on stage or in large opera houses. An opera house is a large, theater-style building with a stage, orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage rooms. Opera singers train their voices daily and study music for years. Most operas are performed in the original language in which they were written, so opera singers learn to sing several languages. Do you...

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Posted by on Jun 22, 2011 in Videos | 0 comments