Classical Kids CDs and DVDs
The award winning and best-selling Classical Kids series takes you into a world of the composer. A dramatic story, a little bit of history and the world’s best-loved classical music set the scene for fun-filled musical adventures for all ages. Classical Kids recordings have been used in classrooms from K-9 but are most suitable for K-6. All titles are available in CD only or CD with Teacher’s Guide. Classical Kids teacher’s notes include more than 100 facts, activities and thought-provoking questions. Each volume also includes a two-week planner giving a step-by-step approach to introducing classical music. Move children from passive listeners to active participants in the creative arts, enhancing literacy, critical thinking skills and building a strong platform for learning within all subject areas.
Classical
Kids Teaching Edition
$299.98 Your Price $269.98
This comprehensive book-style set combines musical studies with many other subject areas and skills and is designed to move children from passive listeners to active participants in music, drama, social studies, history and other arts. The set also promotes literacy, critical thinking and communication skills.
The Teaching Edition includes 9 award-winning and best-selling Classical Kids CDs plus the Beethoven Lives Upstairs and Mr. Bach Comes to Call DVDs. The set also features 3 exclusive bonus discs:
- Teacher's Resources CD-ROM: includes Teacher's Notes and scripts for all 9 CDs
- Slideshow DVD: hundreds of images from the times of the great composers
- Music Only CD: 40 minutes of instrumental-only music from the Classical Kids CDs
The Teacher's Notes support the Integrated Curriculum, Whole Language Learning, Enquiry-based Learning and Visual Thinking Strategies. They provide activities and suggestions to help students and musicians develop general creativity, multi-level thinking, memory skills, cooperation and time management. The scripts are ideal for class read-alongs or ESL programs. The Slideshow DVD also comes with hundreds of questions and activities to encourage class discussions.
This package meets or exceeds most state and provincial standards for arts education and was developed in coordination with the U.S. National Standard for Arts Education.
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Beethoven
Lives Upstairs
CD with Teacher's Guide $32.98
Your Price $29.68
CD Only $16.98 Your Price $15.28
DVD $19.99 Your Price $17.99
The arrival of an eccentric boarder turns a young boy's life upside down. Ludwig van Beethoven has moved in upstairs! At first Christoph resents their new tenant but slowly he comes to understand the genius of the man, the torment of his deafness and the beauty of his music. In the end he is won over by the music and true incidents from the great composer's life.
The music, all originally produced, includes excerpts of more than 35 of Beethoven's best-loved works: Symphonies Nos. 5 to 9, the Moonlight and Pathetique Sonatas, Violin "Spring Sonata," Flute Serenade, G+ Sonatina, Minuet in G+, and Fur Elise.
Mr.
Bach Comes to Call
CD with Teacher's Guide $32.98 Your Price $29.68
CD Only $16.98 Your Price $15.28
DVD $19.99 Your Price $17.99
Mr. Bach, a magic orchestra and boys' choir surprise young Elizabeth as she practices at the piano.
The series' premiere recording opens with the launch of Bach's music into space aboard the Voyager II spacecraft. Mr. Bach magically arrives and reminisces about his life and music; his twenty children, his time in jail and his devotion to the church.
Not until the very end does he reveal the reason for his visit, "Every time my music is played... I am alive."
More than 28 musical excerpts include Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Brandenburg Concerto #5, Air on the G-string, Flute Sonatas and Badinerie, Goldberg Variations, minuets and preludes, organ music and Cantata #78.
Hallelujah
Handel
CD with Teacher's Guide $32.98 Your Price $29.68
CD Only $16.98 Your Price $15.28
Katarina, first introduced in Vivaldi's Ring of Mystery, has left Venice for England with her grandfather. At an elegant - though rather bizarre- party in London, she meets the great composer George Frederic Handel. Katarina and Maestro Handel are drawn together by the haunting voice of Thomas, a young boy brought by his keeper to sing for the assembled guests. Katarina and Handel are filled with compassion for the boy and gradually unravel his strange past. Through the kindness of Katarina, the generosity of the famous composer and the power and majesty of Handel's music, Thomas's heart is healed, unlocking the voice of an angel.
Hallelujah Handel brings to life the soundscapes of 18th century London and is filled with more than two dozen excerpts of Handel's most glorious music including the Sarabande in D-, Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, and of course, Messiah.
Mozart’s
Magic Fantasy
CD with Teacher's Guide $32.98 Your Price $29.68
CD Only $16.98 Your Price $15.28
A young girl falls into a production of Mozart's great opera "The Magic Flute." Sarah, Prince Tamino and a faint-hearted dragon embark on a magic journey from the dark realm of the Queen of the Night to Sarastro's enchanted castle, with only a magic flute and bells to guide them to the princess Pamina. Together they reunite Prince Tamino with his Princess and help the birdman Papageno find his Papagena.
This recording includes the most popular themes and arias from the original opera, all freshly translated and recorded using child-appropriate verse. Lyrics included.
Mozart’s
Magnificent Voyage
CD with Teacher's Guide $32.98 Your Price $29.68
CD Only $16.98 Your Price $15.28
The Dream Children are about to be written out of Mozart's most famous opera. Hoping to change their fate, they enlist the help of the composer's young son Karl. Together the children embark on an incredible journey that takes them back in time to Mozart's childhood as well as far into the future. Along the way, Karl learns much about his father and comes to understand his legacy of timeless music.
Features more than 24 excerpts of Mozart's most important and engaging works including Symphony No. 1, Clarinet Quintet, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, plus excerpts from Mozart's most famous operas including The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute.
Tchaikovsky
Discovers America
CD with Teacher's Guide $32.98 Your Price $29.68
CD Only $16.98 Your Price $15.28
The great composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky arrives in New York for the grand opening of Carnegie Hall. It's all aboard for fun as two children join the composer on a musical journey to Niagara Falls. The children set the stage for the story to reveal much about Tchaikovsky -- his life in Russia, his love of music and his fears of conducting. In the end, both the composer and the children discover something about courage -- and about themselves.
This recording features more than 24 of Tchaikovsky's best-known and best-loved works including The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, the First Piano Concerto, String Serenade and 1812 Overture. Also included is a musical mosaic of well-known American music of the time, including ragtime, spirituals and popular folk classics.
Vivaldi’s
Ring of Mystery
CD with Teacher's Guide $32.98 Your Price $29.68
CD Only $16.98 Your Price $15.28
In this touching tale, a gifted young violinist is sent to study music at the Pietà orphanage in Venice with the great composer Antonio Vivaldi. It's Carnival time, magic is in the air and mystery unfolds as Katarina enlists Giovanni, the gondolier, to help in her search to discover her origins.
In a climactic scene, a masked stranger reunites Katarina with her family and she must make an important choice between staying with her music at the Pietà or entering the world.
More than 24 excerpts from Vivaldi's most popular and important works have been freshly recorded, including the Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in A-, Guitar Concerto, Piccolo Concerto, Double Trumpet Concerto and a recording of the premiere of Vivaldi's unfinished opera Farnace, RV 711.
Daydreams
and Lullabies
CD with Teacher's Guide $32.98 Your Price $29.68
CD Only $16.98 Your Price $15.28
Follow a young family from playtime to dreamtime with this magical mix of classical music, classical poetry and poems written and performed by children. Newborns to 90-year olds will enjoy a rich variety of great classical lullabies, rounds for family singing and traditional English songs.
Excerpts from Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Schubert, Pachelbel and Tchaikovsky are woven into a colorful musical collage with classic poetry from three centuries - William Blake (1700s), Eugene Fields (1800s) and Dennis Lee (1900s) - with poems written and performed by today's children.
Song
of the Unicorn
CD with Teacher's Guide $32.98 Your Price $29.68
CD Only $16.98 Your Price $15.28
When a young queen falls mysteriously ill, her children are sent deep into the forest in search of her only cure: the legendary unicorn. The great magician Merlin helps them on their quest. With riddles and the unicorn's song, the children travel to the magical isle of Avalon. There they must decide what can truly cure their mother -- King Arthur's powerful sister, Morgan-le-Fay, or the healing touch of the unicorn.
Features more than two dozen excerpts of pre-Baroque music, including traditional English songs like Greensleeves and Early One Morning, Gregorian Chant, Celtic songs, wild Medieval dances plus a journey into the future of music with Bach, Beethoven and beyond.
Enhanced CD with music, pictures and activities to play on your computer, too!
Classical
Kids Christmas
CD Only $16.98 Your Price $15.28
Songbook $34.98 Your Price $31.48
Student Edition $29.98 Your Price $26.98
Classical carols and classic poetry combine to tell the story of Christmas, just like the pageants of days-gone-by. More than 30 traditional carols and holiday songs the whole family will enjoy including Silent Night, O Come All Ye Faithful, We Three Kings, O Holy Night and much, much, more.
Classical Kids Christmas Songbook
Everything you need to perform a Christmas Concert or Dramatic Pageant in one complete package. · 21 songs in SA or SS with piano or guitar accompaniment plus optional descants for Orff or traditional instruments
· 6 reproducible arrangements for practice or performance
· Complete script including poems or stories to be read aloud over music or unaccompanied
· Set, costume, staging and choreography suggestions
· Facts, activities and curriculum connections
· Recommended for Grades K-8
Featuring more than 30 traditional carols and holiday songs, including:
Silent Night * O Come All Ye Faithful * We Three Kings * O Holy Night * Go Tell it on the Mountain * God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen * Handel's Messiah * Christmas Eve is Here * Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite * Away in a Manger * Polish Lullaby * Angels We Have Heard on High * This Great Day * Joseph, Dearest * O Tannenbaum * Vivaldi's Winter * The Friendly Beasts * Here We Come Awassailing * and more!
Student Edition
Student Edition Song Books include the complete script and music for choir members and student performers. The purchase of A Classical Kids Christmas Song Book plus a minimum of 15 Student Editions by a registered school, church or other not-for-profit community group includes a limited license to publicly perform the concert or pageant.