Category Archives: Music and Movement

Fabulous Picture Books about Jazz

“Jazz music is America’s past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it.  The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It … Continue reading

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Music for Infants, Toddlers and Those Who Teach and Care for Them

“A  good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” ~ Brad Henry Recently I delivered a workshop to an amazing group of Early Childhood Education students at George Brown College.  Specifically, I was asked … Continue reading

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Friendship Soup

“Soup is the song of the hearth…  and the home.” ~ Louis P. De Gouy Last week, a group of children collaborated to make “Friendship Soup.” What better way to celebrate the approach of Thanksgiving than to prepare a special … Continue reading

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An Interview with Kathy Reid-Naiman

“My music had roots which I’d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.” ~ Ray Charles Kathy Reid-Naiman is an enormously gifted musician who has given to the world several gorgeous recordings of songs and … Continue reading

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Marvellous Picture Books about Music

“I see a song. I paint music. I hear colour.  I touch the rainbow and the deep spring in the ground.  My music talks.  My colors dance. Come, listen, and let your imagination see your own song.” ~ Eric Carle Here is … Continue reading

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Music and Children in Film

“We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone … and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.” ~ Sandra Day O’Connor … Continue reading

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My Week at CAMMAC Music Camp

“Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.” ~ Henry Van Dyke I spent the first week of July in the Laurentians, immersed in listening to and learning to … Continue reading

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Beautiful Music and Beautiful Children

“The fact that children can make beautiful music is less significant than the fact that music can make beautiful children.” ~ Cheryl Lavender Years ago I began studies of music in early childhood, to become a better musician, to learn … Continue reading

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Five Little Pumpkins

“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.” ~Robert Brault I realize that Five Little Pumpkins has become such a classic rhyme to share with children as October 31st … Continue reading

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A Spring Poem for Children

“Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems. ” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke I plant a little seed in the dark, dark ground, Out comes the yellow sun, big and round. Down comes the cool rain … Continue reading

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