March 21st, 2008 at 9:00 am by Hope (Homeschooling, Music)
Found this talented duo, Rodrigo y Gabriela, through the”Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child” podcast. Mind you, I’m not a flamenco fan by any means. (unless listening to Andres Segovia as a kid counts.) But this pair could make me one.
The link on their names above takes you to a Youtube video of their live performance of “Diablo Rojo.” I think I like it better than the studio version I got from iTunes.
Enjoy!
October 8th, 2007 at 7:02 am by Hope (Homeschooling, Music)
We checked these out from the library last week. I laughed until I cried listening to this cd as well as Beethovin’s Wig 2. There’s even a Beethovin’s Wig 3!
If you are a classical purist (what are you doing reading my blog?), you may not enjoy these so much. If you want to hear classical music set with catchy (and often historically inspired) lyrics, you gotta get these or at least borrow them from your library.
The first volume featured something like 11 classical songs. They first play with the hilarious lyrics. Then you hear them all again without. We found ourselves trying to remember the lyrics (and bouncing along just as much) when listening to the “plain” version.
I will eventually own all 3 volumes! What a great way to introduce classical music. You’ll never listen to these pieces the same way again!!!
June 6th, 2007 at 11:56 pm by Hope (Homeschooling, Music, Ocarina)
It is funny sometimes how one piece of information leads to others…
I’ve been looking through Brightly Beaming’s prepatory curriculum to get ideas for things to do with Jessie starting next month. Their week 2 mentions a nursery rhyme that I’d never heard of called “I Had a Little Nut Tree.” So… I Googled it and found a second verse with an audio file, as well as some very interesting information on its history. Seems “the King of Spain’s daughter” mentioned in the first verse is none other than Katherine of Aragon. (pictured) Oh, here’s the sheet music for it too!
So now, in all my excitement, I’ve converted it to ocarina notation in hopes of getting Sam to play it while Jessie and I sing it! I am thinking of doing this rather than digging deeper into music notation with him since it would combine music for him and activities for Jessie. 
