[Dixielandjazz] Early concert gives kids a taste of jazz

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

This is indeed a wonderful thing, how nice of them to do it ONCE a 
year,  Too bad they don't do it once a week, let's  see now, they said 
there were hundreds of folks there, times say 50 weeks a year or so, 
they might actually get another generation.
Heck even once a Month, would probably work too.
'Tis a shame, but it seems normal for Americans anyway to just throw 
just enough bait to the school of little musical fishes, but not quite 
enough to actually catch very many of them. :))


It is up to folks like us to do something about it.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins
Jazz For Kids program.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Richoux <tubaman at tubatoast.com>
To: DJML Jazz <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 08:46:06 -0700
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Early concert gives kids a taste of jazz

   Hi all, 
 
 This was in the morning paper... 
 
 Dave Richoux 
 
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 Early concert gives kids a taste of jazz 
 SHOW AT STANFORD ATTRACTS HUNDREDS 
 By Kim Vo 
 Mercury News 
 Before the music, there was the crying. 
 
  Babies wailed, parents chatted and toddlers scampered along the rows 
of Stanford University's Dinkelspiel Auditorium. But soon the room was 
filled with a different type of noise: a swinging rendition of ``You 
Are My Sunshine.'' 
 
  That lively version followed an unorthodox ``Twinkle, Twinkle Little 
Star'' and a moody piece about a girl named Mary losing her lamb. 
 
  ``Sometimes in jazz music,'' saxophonist Jim Nadel explained to his 
audience of children younger than 7, ``we may change the melody a 
little bit.'' 
 
  Jazz is rarely associated with children or early mornings, but the 
Stanford Jazz Workshop hosts an Early Bird Jazz concert every year for 
families. Hundreds attend the free sessions, which are divided into two 
age groups. 
 
  ``We want to provide something fun and educational for kids . . . and 
to introduce kids to music, not jazz but all music,'' said education 
director Michael Zisman, who also plays the bass. ``We always want to 
prepare our next audiences.'' 
 
  This was a casual concert. The lights remained on and children were 
encouraged to move and sing along as musicians demonstrated the 
different sounds produced by voices and hands, strings and wind. 
 
  Though one baby in a stocking cap managed to sleep through it all, 
most children seemed taken with the joyful sounds coming from the 
stage. They bounced -- often off-beat -- on their mothers' laps or 
toddled toward the front to get a closer look. 
 
  They also learned big phrases like ``polyphonic round'' and words that 
sounded like gibberish: ``boogie-woogie.'' 
 
  Kenji Greenberg, 4, later considered what instruments he might one day 
play. 
 
  ``What's that big violin called?'' he asked, referring to the bass. 
``I even like the drums.'' 
 
  Two-year-old Enola Talbert was still singing ``Twinkle, Twinkle'' 
after the concert. The girl is a big music fan, and recently put 
together two Legos to build a ``piano,'' said her mother, Johanna 
Talbert of San Mateo. 
 
  ``We've exposed her since she was a baby,'' Talbert said. ``For us, 
this is a normal thing.'' 
 
  Vocalist Amber Hines, who started Saturday's concert encouraging 
children to rub their bellies to awaken their ``music spirit,'' said 
it's important for children to learn about music. It wasn't until she 
was 20, she said, that she ``found music.'' 
 
  ``I can't imagine what'd be different if I was exposed to it 
earlier.'' 
 
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