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<DIV><FONT size=4>I would like to thank you all for all the suggestions you sent
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I will definetly study Orff’s Schulwerk and see what I can
find. The idea sounds most interesting. I will also try to watch Fantasia with
Godson the next time I see him. If you are not aware of this movie please do
watch it. Stoikowski conducts Bach, Beethoven and Strawinksy (gasp ! I hear you
say, but it works ! Plus, kids like dinosaurs, so why not?) amongst others and
the visual stimulant is absolutey mindblowing stuff, especially the Nurcracker
with the woodelfs. I must admit I had not seen this movie before but it was
worth every minute.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I shall also look into all the other suggestions you kindly
sent in. Lenny doing his shtick might be interesting, I just hope he is not too
blase for a 10 year old. But if his style of delivery is getting popular again
then why not ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I also wonder about that thing with the Magic Flute done with
marionettes is worth it. Just playing the music “as is” without telling him what
it is might work then. The idea sound most interesting, Mozart and Marionettes.
Hm.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>For the moment Godson will get the new children’s book by
Dawkins (because scientific knowledge is also important !) and in terms of
classical music Peter and the Wolf (narrated in german by Loriot and english by
David Bowie).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>He will also get the WTC 1 played by GG because someone
suggested that this would quite easy, I have also added the Two and Three Part
Inventions because they are short. Tracks from the Klavierbüchlein would have
also been sweet but I dunno any good recordings, shame on me. At least I know GG
never recorded the full thing. You can never have too much Bach in any
case.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>And if he likes that stuff I already have a few ideas and
suggestions for his birthday.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Again, thank you all for helping me out on that one and the
best of the season for you and yours.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>OT closed</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=rubatoatm@gmail.com
href="mailto:rubatoatm@gmail.com">Anita Monroe</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 07, 2011 6:22 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=f_minor@glenngould.org
href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn
Gould.</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [f_minor] OT: Intro to Classical Music for a young lad
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style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Tim,
This has triggered memories. One thing my students did can make me laugh
remembering it. When listening to the 1812 Overture, they threw papers
balls every time the cannon boomed. I'm sure all of them remember that
music.
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<DIV>Anita (-:<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Timothy Conway <SPAN
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class=gmail_quote>Hi Pat, I introduced hundreds of students to
classical music. I didn't tell them what it was, just played it and
sometimes had them figure out "the beat". They loved Beethoven's
5th. It has great rhythm. The second movement can make anyone
sway,even sitting at a desk. I would just sit with the kid, listen to
good stuff and beat the rhythm, maybe with a little
drum.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>I agree. That's how we all learned at school in
England when I was 11. Our music teacher, who could play just about every
instrument in the orchestra and had a good voice, used to play us Morning and
From the Hall of the Mountain King (Greig) on 78s and a wind-up gramophone. He
also had that Rachmaninov prelude where the bloke is supposedly lying in his
coffin hoping to be released, Ravel's Bolero, The Sorcerer's Apprentice,
bouncy bits of Handel and LvB, ditto Boccherini and whatever else he could
find that we would like. One record a week was a fun record, like The Runaway
Train Went Over The Hill, or Danny Kaye's Tubby the Tuba or Der Liddle Fiddle.
If there was anything we didn't like, he never played it again. Only when we
were 15 or more did he introduce us to serious stuff, and at that stage the LP
had arrived and we were no longer confined to shorter pieces.<BR><BR>And after
more than 50 years I can still remember a lot of the pieces he played us
(those I mentioned and The New World Symphony second movement, Schubert's
Unfinished, Eine Kleine Nachtmusic, Rossini overtures, thrilling bits of Verdi
especially La Donna e Mobile, and so on) -- all potboilers but just what we
weedy almost-teens needed to interest us in proper music. Mind you -- times
were different then because there was little TV and radio and not every house
had a gramophone. The Internet was decades away. So I suppose we would have
lapped up anything. But although times change, kids
don't.<BR><BR>HTH.<BR><BR><BR>-- Tim Conway<BR>Geraldton, Western
Australia<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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