Kindermusik in Asheville

Thank you Aunt Em for this fun collage of our Monday Kindermusik Village Class (newborn to 18mo) at the Asheville Arts Center. What a great class! Moms, dads, grandparents! Always 3 classes for the price of one: Music for the babies, aerobics for the grown ups and a special this term is ballroom dancing! Well, remember, it's only a dance and it's really the fun that counts.

One of the musical elements of this day's focus is the meter of the music. That means the organization of beats (ie groups of 3 beats or 4 beats). In the song that we are moving to and I am counting there are at least 4 different organization patterns including measures of 7 beats. If babies hear this in their environment then playing Stravinsky's Rite of Spring won't be such a counting challenge when they are in their college orchestra!