Swing & Sing: Music Together - $50 Gift Certificate
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Description
Music Together is an internationally recognized early childhood music program for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners and the adults who love them. First offered to the public in 1987, it pioneered the concept of a research-based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement.
Music Together classes are based on the recognition that all children are musical. All children can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat, and participate with confidence in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning. By emphasizing actual music experiences, rather than concepts about music, Music Together introduces children to the pleasures of making music instead of passively receiving it from CDs or TV.
Central to the Music Together approach is that young children learn best from the powerful role model of parents/caregivers who are actively making music. The program brings families together by providing a rich musical environment in the classroom and by facilitating family participation in spontaneous musical activity at home within the context of daily life.
Music Together is committed to helping families, caregivers, and early childhood professionals rediscover the pleasure âA?¨and educational value of informal music experiences. All our teachers have successfully completed Music Together’s training program. Music Together applies the latest research in early childhood music development to the program. The 2012-2013 season marks the 25th Anniversary of the Music Together Program.
You can learn more about Music Together by contacting Sing and Swing via email or by calling us at 216-321-SING (7464). You can also visit the National Music Together website atwww.musictogether.com.
Sing and Swing offers Music Together Family Class, Babies Class, Big Kids Class and classes in Preschool. Please click on the logo links on the left to learn more about each type of class.
Special Instructions
http://www.singandswing.org/
Contact: Jennifer Woda at Director@singandswing.org
Jennifer Woda holds a BA in Music from Rutgers University and an MM in Vocal Performance from the University of Akron. She has taught music to children of all ages from birth to high school seniors, including three years as a vocal and general music teacher at Perkins Middle School in Akron, Ohio. Jennifer loves teaching Music Together® because there are so many “Aha! Moments” that happen for both the children and their parents in every class. She also loves that Music Together affords her the opportunity to do the two things which bring her the most joy: singing and teaching children.
As a professional opera singer, Jennifer has sung extensively in the Northeast Ohio area, including solo work with Cleveland Opera on Tour, Lyric Opera Cleveland Educational Outreach, Opera Circle, Kent State University Orchestra, Canton Comic Opera Company, Church of the Savior, Opera per Tutti, and The Medina Community Band. She has also performed with Cleveland Opera/Opera Cleveland as a member of the chorus in fourteen productions. Some of her favorites include Carmen, Turandot and Sweeney Todd. Ms Woda’s musical theater experience includes productions with Cain Park, Medina Showbiz Company, Lakeland Community College and Kalliope Stage. Her favorite musical theater role is The Baker’s Wife from Into the Woods.
Jennifer grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and graduated from Cleveland Heights High School. She returned to Cleveland Heights after college, and lives there now with her husband, Brian Thornton, a cellist with the Cleveland Orchestra, their two daughters: Maya, a third grader at Noble Elementary and Madelyn, a preschooler at the Fairmount Temple Early Childhood Center.