MaryAnn F. Kohl, process art and treasures of childhood

Mr. Rogers Lifetime Achievement Award Video

Watch if you dare. This is a moving delightful important video.

Fred Rogers Accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. 

He thanks us for allowing him to be our neighbor. Thank you, Mr. Rogers. Thank you.

 

This video will move your heart to wonder, "Why don't we use television for grace?"

http://youtu.be/Upm9LnuCBUM  

 

 

Followed by my favorite Fred Rogers Video of All Time!!

http://youtu.be/oBt8keQTPb0 

Hallelujah Chorus at Macy's. Powerful and Beautiful

You will love Random Acts of Culture, bringing you

the Hallelujah Chorus at Macy's!

Bring your tissues. This is really worth hearing and seeing. Inspiring!!

http://www.knightarts.org/community/detroit/your-words-random-acts-of-culture

 

a talented orchestral conductor, age 3!

 

I don't know when a video of a child has brought me to tears.
That every person in this world could feel the music they way this child feels it,
and shows it.

Wunderbar!~ 

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Listen: "Tubby the Tuba" with Danny Kaye as storyteller

This is a repost, but I don't want you to miss this! 
 Danny Kaye is a storytelling master -
 run and get the kids so they can listen with you.

Danny Kaye 
sings and tells a story that I Ioved as a child, and listened to over and over ~ 
"Tubby the Tuba"

This popular children's song became a hit for Danny Kaye after he hosted his own CBS radio show in 1945. 
 

It tells the story of a tuba who played in an orchestra, but never got to play a melody - 

that is until he meets the bullfrog!

Kids will love when the orchestra joins Tubby with their waves of orchestration,
 as Danny says, "And they all played!"

  Favorite songs: 
 "Alone Am I"
 and
 "Tubby's Song, a tuba solo" 
 (click on Tubby the Tuba above to listen) 

As a child, I played Tubby's tuba solo song thousands of times - hauntingly beautiful.

Christmas in July: "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"

I'm working on a new book called "Great Composers for Kids" (my daughter Hannah Kohl is the co-author), and came across this Tchaikovsky piece of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" played on the Glass Armonica. Just close your eyes and listen -- float away in the notes. Ooooo. I know kids are going to love this!!!! I'll have to repost it in December.

The Glass Armonica was invented by Benjamin Franklin.

You can listen to some of Hannah's music on her website if you wish. 
  She's a composer/lyricist/playwrite in New York.