Free Music Downloads: Wedding, Baby and More

I love to see freebies available for all stages in life. Here are three free music download offers sure to please, which ever stage in life you are: Amazon is offering The O’Neill Brothers Wedding Music: Amazon Sampler for FREE. Even if you are not planning a wedding you may want to check out the slow songs being offered for free. Munchkin is offering two album downloads: Musical Soup™ – Mozart Wombsong Collection and Musical Soup™ – Mozart for Toddlers . Awesome collection of c

Lullabelly Prenatal Music Belt

Apparently, some experts claim that having your kid in the womb listen to music (especially classical music) is great for their mental development, giving them a head start before they pop out of the womb. Doesn’t explain how we get child prodigies like Mozart in the past when there was no such thing though, leading me to believe that this is more or less hogwash and is some sort of marketing tool instead. Still, if you’re adamant on making sure your yet-unborn kid will be the next world genius,

Parents Feeling Duped Seek Baby Einstein Refund

Baby Einstein videos, all the rage in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, were marketed as “educational” with the implication that they would make your wee baby smarter. Well apparently that claim isn’t true and now a refund is available to anyone who bought a Baby Einstein video in the last five years. We have all the information you need to get a Baby Einstein refund below. When the Baby Einstein videos first came out they were an instant success primarily fueled by “Mozart M

Brit schoolboy pianist, 10, compared to Mozart

A 10-year-old British schoolboy has been predicted to be the new Mozart after he displayed his genius with just four months of formal piano lessons. Shane Thomas, who put his fingers on a piano at the age of seven, rehearses for just four hours a week but already exhibits high standards of music scores. The talented youngster’s [...] Related posts: Mozart tops ‘Britain’s Favourite Male Classical Composers’ list ”Lost” Mozart piece makes French debut Darwins pianist wife may have influe

Clarinet call

Clarinet lovers are invited to the Hong Kong Sinfonietta's (Tel: 2836-3336) Know Your Classical Music: Clarinet over the weekend. World-renowned maestro Charles Neidich will be performing Mozart's works, including The Magic Flute, on different types of clarinets while sharing his insights with conductor Yip Wing-sie. Tickets, priced at HK$100, HK$150 and HK$200, are available at www.urbtix.hk.

Conquer Piano Playing-Rocket Method Way

You can do it, you can learn to play piano. Some people think it is too difficult to learn how to play piano with skill. . But can you imagine the thrill your accomplishment after learning to play classical pieces by Beethoven or Mozart? The the Rocket Piano Method. will certainly get you there. This piano tutorial is both for beginners and others alike. Like any new skill that you want to develop, piano playing comes with effort and patience. To accomplish that goal, you need a very go

Mastering Piano With Skill -Rocket Piano Method

Anyone and I mean anyone can learn to play piano. Some people think it is too difficult to learn how to play piano with skill. . But just imagine the sense of your accomplishment after learning to play classical pieces by Beethoven or Mozart The the Rocket Piano Method. will certainly get you there. This piano tutorial is both for beginners and others alike. Like any new skill that you want to develop, piano playing comes with effort and patience. To accomplish that goal, you need a very

Amy Beach Passionate Victorian The Life and Work of an American Composer 1867 1944

Amy Beach Passionate Victorian The Life and Work of an American Composer 1867 1944

The question one inevitably asks when considering the life of composer Amy Beach is this: How much greater might she have been if she’d had the same opportunities given male prodigies such as Mozart or Beethoven? As it was, Beach’s talent was prodigious and widely recognized in her own time. Born in 1867 to a musical family, the young Amy was playing the piano by ear by the time she was four. Had she been a boy, no doubt a brilliant career as a concert pianist would have followed; instead, Amy married a much older man and mostly confined her musical genius to once-yearly concerts and to composing. Beach was prolific and eclectic, writing a Mass, a symphony (her “Gaelic” Symphony was the first work by an American woman composer to be performed by an American orchestra) and chamber music. In later years, after her husband’s death, Beach toured the world as a performer.

In her extensive biography of Amy Beach, Adrienne Fried Block examines both the composer’s life and work. Excerpts from various pieces are included in the book, giving readers an opportunity to study her music. Block does an admirable job of explaining to those less musically knowledgeable just what Beach was attempting to accomplish in each piece. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian is an excellent biography for anyone interested in the life of a remarkable woman; for those who are also interested in music and composition, it’s a real treat.

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Is “Classic 99″ down to its final movement?

R.J. Matson, St. Louis Post-DispatchAs the Prague Chamber Orchestra’s recording of Mozart’s Symphony No. 2 ended his morning drive program on KFUO-FM Tuesday, Tom Sudholt, the deep-voiced classical music deejay, noted it was the 25th of August and said, “Where has this month gone to? Where has everything gone, huh? Oh, boy….”It was gallows humor for the loyal listeners of St. Louis’ only classical music station. As early as tomorrow, KFUO, 99.1 on your FM dial (“Classic 99”), could be sold. The

John Nemeth’s Hungary-man blues

John Nemeth$7. 9:30 p.m. Thurs., Aug. 20. Blind Willie’s, 822 N. Highland Ave. 404-873-BLUE. www.blindwilliesblues.com.It’s an unlikely recipe for a bluesman. The son of a Hungarian freedom fighter, singer/harpist John Nemeth was raised in Boise, Id. on a daily diet of Hungarian folk, opera and classical music. “Through osmosis you learn a lot about melody from listening to Brahms and Lizst and Mozart and Chopin and Beethoven and all those cats, and all these Hungarians who are just playing mino

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