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Kid Pan Alley - Nashville Chamber Orchestra

Kid Pan Alley - Nashville Chamber Orchestra

Spring 2005 Music
Ages: All Ages
CD Price: $15.00
Review:
Feel-good songs, bluesy songs, funny songs and silly songs, big-hearted, I-know-how-you-feel songs: This beautifully produced CD is an all-inclusive celebration of creativity, shared experiences and new horizons. A collaboration between grade-schoolers and top professional song-writers, singers and musicians, it comes from a curriculum-based music enrichment program developed by musician Paul Reisler as a national initiative of the not-for-profit Ki Theatre in Virginia. No work to be done here, though. Just listen, think and imagine--kids, tweens and adults, too. A loving grandfather's failing memory is the empathy-building theme of "Can't Remember What I Forgot." Having a bad day? Bounce back with "Bouncin' Off the Bottom," the irresistible first track. Feeling pressured to be something you're not? "True to Me" is an uplifting affirmation ("So don't lock me up in a box/I won't be something that I'm not"). Kim Richey, Amy Grant and Tommy Sims are a few of the singers represented here.
Lynne Heffley   ©2005 Parents' Choice
A long-time Parents' Choice music critic, Lynne was a staff writer for 25 years at the Los Angeles Times where she established and maintained the paper's first weekly children's arts and entertainment beat and was a general arts reporter. Now a freelance writer, Lynne works in the areas of non-profit communications, the arts and family entertainment (specializing in children's theater, music, audio books and book illustration). In her spare time, when she's not reading, Lynne is likely to be found strumming American Songbook standards and Tin Pan Alley novelty songs on one of her seven ukuleles.
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