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Share Your Musical Memories with Us!

To celebrate Sing With Your Child Month 2012, we’d like to find out what songs have been most meaningful to you. Is there a particular lullaby or folksong you will always associate with your grandmother? Growing up, did you dance along to the “West Side Story” soundtrack or sing silly songs around the campfire? Have you shared this music with your own son or daughter?

Create a video sharing your musical memory—and, in the spirit of Music Together and Sing With Your Child Month, include your family, too. Sing that lullaby with your son or daughter or put on the musical soundtrack and have a dance party!

Every family who submits a video will be entered into a drawing to win musical prizes, including the grand prize: a free semester of Music Together classes!

Visit the contest page for more details, to upload your video, and for filming tips from our A/V Department. Videos will be accepted through March 31—so start working on yours today! All clips will be shared on the Music Together YouTube Channel, so keep an eye out for them throughout the month of March. Contest Page

And, don’t forget to visit the Sing With Your Child Month web page, where you’ll find music-making ideas and weekly giveaways in March. Remember, too, the simplest—and most important—way to celebrate Sing With Your Child Month is to simply gather your family together and share a favorite song. We hope you enjoy creating more musical memories with your family!

In a Music Together classroom, there is so much stimuli for infants. If you have a baby in a music class, you will notice how quickly they develop musically. Babies are in constant download mode and therefore just being in the room is enough. The music, the motions (like hand clapping, egg shaking, etc.), the getting up and dancing with baby, bouncing to the beat and so much music making activity will constantly help develop the infants as their neurons are connecting. These are connections they will never lose and some babies, by the time they are almost 2 can keep a steady beat already!

Here’s my infant story. Feel free to share yours too! My twins were 2.5 when my youngest was born so I took all 3 kids to Music Together classes. The twins kept me plenty busy so I pretty much had to ignore my 2 month old. He, however, would be sitting in the car seat with eyes and ears wide open. Without me even knowing it, he was getting more out of the class than the twins did. By the time he was 2, he could keep a steady beat to any song. His big brother was already taking Suzuki violin lessons at Longmont Suzuki Strings where the teacher encouraged the younger siblings to start even earlier. At age 2, he started violin lessons. When he turned 3 years old, I switched him to cello. He is now 13 and does not remember a time he did not play the cello. He and his brother just performed today at Macke Auditorium with the Greater Boulder Youth Orchestra. The performance was fantastic! You would not know it was kids performing if you heard them.

If you are ever interested in attending a concert, let me know. The next one will be the first Sunday in May. Also, you can enjoy this video of my cellist performing in 2010, when he was 12. It’s great to share videos with your little ones so they see people playing live instruments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLIaoTYEZJ4