Lynn Kleiner – Kids Can Listen, Kids Can Move

Lynn Kleiner’s teacher reference for encouraging young musicians to engage with and respond to classical music is our early years movement ‘bible’.

The author suggests ideas which can be included in your music lessons as short segments of creative delights, fostering sensitive responses to classical music.

No movement or dance training required!

Suitable to both boys and girls.

Lynn Kleiner presents her creative ideas and stories for movement and percussion playing as she delights preschoool through primary age children with orchestral favourites.

Dance, create, march, trot, walk, skip, jump, hide, sleep, play instruments, come in, say goodbye. This book and CD will allow teachers and parents to capture children’s interest in orchestral music for a lifetime.

The enclosed CD contains 25 tracks including:

• Syncopated Clock by Leroy Anderson
• Forgotten Dreams by Leroy Anderson
• Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson
• Lieutenant Kije -Troika by Prokofiev
• Hungarian Dance No. 6 by Brahms
• Memories of Childhood by Octavio Pinto
• Children’s March – Over the Hills and Far Away by Percy Grainger
• Creatures of the Garden by Herbert Donaldson
• The Wild Horseman by Schumann
• Selections from Tchaikovky’s The Nutcracker
• Selections from Bizet’s Carmen
• Viennese Musical Clock by Zoltan Kodaly
• Selections from Saint-Saen’s Carnival of the Animals
• Largo from Dvorak’s New World
• Adagio from Brahms’ Symphony No 1
• Theme and Variations from Haydn’s Surprise Symphony
• A selection of ‘goodbye’ songs

My top favourites are:

• Syncopated Clock
• Children’s March
• Selections from Saint-Saen’s Carnival of the Animals

We hope you thoroughly enjoy these activities with your children as we’ve done for nearly 20 years!