YMB #20 Song, Stories, and Memories Made Together
Homeschool Better Together
Emily Brown
4.8 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Classical music is part of the true, good, and beautiful feast I want to spread before my children. Unfortunately, most days I am at a loss as to how to enjoy it myself. Is there more to classical music than a bunch of strings making, what sounds like to me, just noise?
How do I choose which pieces and composers to introduce? What if we don’t like a piece? Why should I even bother when my child enjoys other types of music?
In this episode of Your Morning Basket, Pam interviews Bonnie Simon, creator of Maestro Classics. Bonnie has found memories of her parents playing the violin and cello as she went to bed, and Saturday classical music concerts on the radio. She gently explains how you can give your child found memories of classical music through stories.
By using stories and listening to classical music together, we can help our children develop a relationship with classical music that will stay with them their whole lives. Come listen and learn how to make musical memories with your children.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day. |
| 0:18.1 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 20 of the Your Morning Basket podcast. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm Pam Barnhill, your host, and I'm so happy you're joining me here today. |
| 0:27.6 | Well, we have a real treat for you today. |
| 0:29.6 | I remember about five years ago heading into my very first homeschool conference and one of the booths that I stopped by was the Maestro Classics booth. There, I think |
| 0:39.1 | I picked up a copy of Peter and the Wolf. It's hard for me to remember because now we have |
| 0:44.5 | so many Maestro Classic CDs that we enjoy as a family. My children love the various titles that |
| 0:51.2 | we have in our collection. And so I was really delighted to get to talk to |
| 0:55.7 | Bonnie Simon today from Maestro Classics. We're having a chat about the role of classical music |
| 1:02.9 | and delight in classical music and how we can introduce it to our children in morning time. |
| 1:08.6 | I think you're going to really enjoy the conversation, so we'll get |
| 1:11.4 | right on with it. Bonnie Simon has a deep love of classical music that started in childhood and has |
| 1:24.9 | lasted a lifetime. She has degrees in both music and music education |
| 1:29.3 | and has experience as a teacher, a concert producer, and as an orchestra executive. |
| 1:35.6 | Bonnie is the former executive director of the Washington Chamber Symphony at the Kennedy Center |
| 1:41.2 | in Washington, D.C., where alongside her husband, Stephen, she created |
| 1:46.1 | the Chamber Symphony Concerts for Young People series. Bonnie and Stephen went on to produce |
| 1:51.8 | Maestro Classics Stories in Music Series, CDs to help families enjoy classical music together |
| 1:58.2 | at home. These CDs featured narrated stories such as Peter |
| 2:02.3 | and the Wolf, Swan Lake, The Tortoise in the Hair, and even Mike Mulligan and his steam |
| 2:07.6 | shovel. These are accompanied by beautiful music of the Symphony Orchestra. Today, Bonnie continues |
| 2:13.9 | to serve as the president of Maestro Classics and the executive producer and creative director of stories and music as she inspires and equips families to experience great music together. |
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