Just one case for raising a child to be a musician:

Preparing for life....

Here's an article written by the dean of music at Lawrence Conservatory (Appleton WI) and posted on his blog.

When hiring employees, Microsoft and every other successful company looks for an underlying set of skills that will bring the most benefit to the business. These skills are easy to list, but very hard to find in a single individual. For this discussion I will focus on four of these traits. The perfect employee should be:

Focused
Self-motivated
Collaborative
Communicative

So let's start by taking away our musician's instrument, and putting aside all of our own preconceptions about music being concerned only with the expression of emotion and beauty. We will now take a cold hard look at what goes into creating a successful musician.

Read on to see how these skill are developed, honed to develop a very capable individual and one that's creative and artistically expressive.

But come back and watch this great storytelling musician, David Holt. Click on the picture of his washboard to hear (among his many wonderful stories) his personal story of how he came to love music and choose it as a career. Pay special attention to his demonstration of his invention of "Thunderwear".

I'm tellin' ya. With Kindermusik you give your child the best start (beginning at newborn through 7yrs.) then take it from there! Keep going...put an instrument in their hands.

Email me to come visit a class to get an idea about all the great work we do.

singandtwirl@gmail.com