Music Together's award winning early childhood music curriculum returns to the Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, located at 24 Market Street in Oneonta, NY. The Community Music & Arts Network will now be offering two classes per week. Music specialist Pamela West-Finkle (Miss Pam) leads the developmentally appropriate mixed age class on Wednesday afternoons at 4:30 pm and Thursday mornings at 9:30 am. The ten week Winter 2012 Bells Collection session begins Wednesday, January 4th, 2012.
To register are receive more information, email FunMusic4Kids@aol.com or call Pamela West-Finkle at 607-652-2330. Registration includes ten weeks of classes, an interactive songbook, and double CD set for home and the car. Accompanying siblings can attend at a discount, and infant siblings under 9 months can attend free with a big brother or sister.
About Our Program . . .
Music Together classes are based on the belief that music expression is as much a basic life skill as walking and talking, and that ALL children can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat, and participate with confidence and pleasure in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning.
By emphasizing actual musical experiences rather than concepts about music, we introduce children to the pleasures of making music instead of passively receiving it from CDs or television. Integral to children’s musical development is the active participation of parents and caregivers
Up to 12 children, infants to age five, meet once a week for 45 minutes to experience new songs, chants, small and large motor movement activities, and instrument jam sessions. Children and adults have many opportunities to create and play, experiencing improvisation at the most joyous and fundamental level.
Children may or may not participate in class as they choose and are given the freedom to respond in their own way, according to their own developmental level and temperament. The children learn in class by listening, observing, feeling their parent’s movement, and playing and experimenting themselves. This learning is then reinforced at home by parent/child music interaction and the use of the CD and songbook.
About our teacher...
"Miss Pam" has been a professional multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter/composer for 25 years. She received a B.S. in Education in 1996 and is currently a graduate student in the Masters in Music Education online program from the University of Montana. She is certified to teach K-12 Music & 7-12 English in public schools, and has been a Registered Music Together teacher since 2002. She has taught and performed for thousands of children over the last fifteen years. She’s released multiple albums on her label Angelfly Records, including two children’s albums "Are You Ready? Get Set, Let’s Go!" and "Unicorn Crossing." She has toured and performed nationally and internationally. She is the mother of five—ages 5-21. Google "Angel Pam West" for music & videos.
Regardless of your background in music, you can give your child a love of music. Parent enjoyment, not musical skill, is the single most important factor in fostering a love of music-making in children. Do something wonderful for yourself and your child and join us for some family music fun!
