Customer Reviews

Moving With Mozart

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I have used this CD in the past with my kindergarten and 1st grade students and it is just delightful! The children love the movements to the music via the narrator. Mirror moves is especially fun for the children, as they work with their partners in following the directions given. Young children need to express themselves through movement, and this Mozart introduction allows the little ones to do just that! As Mozart's birthday looms once again this month, I look forward to utilizing this CD in conjunction with other Mozart-related material.

great. Mozart. ok? Wonderful, right?

But this is like being at some huge concert like at Tanglewood soaking up the sounds and the wonder of it all, but some used car salesman on the next blanket WILL NOT SHUT UP AND LISTEN already.

sure, love to listen to Mozart, and to share this treasure with children as background music and as focus music, but here we got this obnoxious voice from Orange County continually and constantly and unapologetically interrupting.

yeah, maybe he's great in person dictating to little captive kids how to move by his own lights to Mozart, but dude, won't you please just for once SHUT UP ALREADY??

at Tanglewood we would have thrown him in to the poison ivy patch behind the pines long since . . .

so we all could finally hear, and listen, man woman and child, and be moved by Mozart

not by some know nothing clown from Orange County who moves us to anger and despair.

I teach young children and I like to use classical music with them, both for movement improvisation and for musical improvisation using rhythm instruments. I've used this CD with children ages 18 months through kindergarten and all the children have responded to it well. The pieces are short enough so the children don't get bored or bogged down. I especially like to use the "Sleigh Ride" piece for improvising with jingle bells - it's a fun holiday activity.

This CD has really helped me better teach music to children from grades Prek up to 3rd grade. I've been very pleasantly surprised on how children who otherwise often misbehave in class suddenly seem focused and happy doing the creative movements to the music of Mozart. The CD plays music while instructions on movements are announced, and the whole mix really fosters better motor coordination in the kids as well as enhanced appreciation for classical music, it seems. Before playing the CD, I found it helpful to review the vocabulary behind the movements, since, for example, preK children might not know what "tilt your head" means unless you model it for them first. I wish they had a CD like this for the music of Bach and Beethoven (and other composers) too! By the way, I think my own appreciation for Mozart's music has increased too as a result of this beautiful blend of his pieces on this CD.