Friday, March 22, 2013

Spring Schedule

After a busy winter (had a baby in November, moved in February), KINDERMUSIK WITH JENNY is ready to roll for SPRING! The spring schedule is up (left hand side of the page). Check it out and see what Kindermusik has to offer you! Please note that this is a flexible schedule. See a class you're interested in but the time won't work for you? Contact me and we'll see what we can work out. Also, if you enroll by MARCH 10, you'll receive a gift of a set of egg shakers or a musical book. Don't delay...come have some spring fun with Kindermusik!

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Why Kindermusik?

WHY KINDERMUSIK? “Perhaps we’ve all misunderstood the reason we learn music, and all the arts in the first place.... for hundreds of years, it has been known that teaching the arts, along with history and math and biology, helps to create the well-rounded mind that western civilization and America have been grounded on.” -actor Richard Dreyfuss

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Exercising the Brain


Exercising the Brain

“Evidence suggests that long-term musical involvement reaps cognitive rewards–in language skills, reasoning and creativity–and boosts social adjustment.
Music exercises the brain. Playing an instrument, for instance, involves vision, hearing, touch, motor planning, emotion, symbol interpretation–all of which activate different brain systems.”

According to Norman M. Weinberger, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology and behavior at the University of California at Irvine, musical experiences help to shape the brain, and “[depriving] children of [music's] intellectual, personal and social benefits . . . by failing to foster musicality, our society is wasting its potential.”
It’s an oldie goldie, but you can read the rest of the original interview from September 2000.

Want to get your child more involved in music?
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