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 | Title : Beethoven's Wig: Sing Along Symphonies
Author : Richard Perlmutter
Release Date : 20020305
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $12.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Inspired and wildly imaginative, Beethoven's Wig is one of the best introductions to classical music you could give to your children. Featuring snippets of 11 classical music staples--Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, et al.--the disc and its creators, Richard Perlmutter and friends, pour on the silly lyrics the first time around to familiarize young ears to the old masters. Then in the last half of the record, the orchestra plays the same 'serious' music pieces instrumentally. You might cheerfully recall Alan Sherman's popular spoofs of old classical works in Wig; pieces like 'Drip, Drip, Drip,' which adapts Delibes's 'Pizzicato from Sylvia,' and if so, you'll again chuckle. You'll also marvel at the expertise throughout the CD, with all the pieces well played and thoroughly fun. Beethoven's Wig is an orchestral treasure with a sense of humor as old or as new as its listeners (and the fun questions that run throughout the CD's liner notes are almost as entertaining as the zany musical interludes). Highly recommended.
Buyer Reviews :
This CD is an absolute tour de force of entertainment and education, powered by lyric writing of exceptional craft and imagination that can be appreciated by all ages, from toddlers to the great grandparents. It evokes a century of musical storytelling, in the most whimsical and clever traditions spanning Gilbert & Sullivan to Tin Pan Alley to the best of Sesame Street.
Lyricist and singer Richard Perlmutter is clearly someone who understands children as well as he understands music, and his love and passion for both fairly burst through the speakers on every track. Fur Elise alone is worth the price of the CD. And Beethovenï, Wig is not just for small children: my 12-year old daughter, upon hearing the lyrics sung to Fur Elise, dashed immediately to the piano, which she had given up two years ago and began playing the piece again for the first time since I can remember and singing Perlmutterï's delightful lyrics from the activity booklet included in the CD package. Now she's saying she wants to perform it in her middle school talent night.
This CD is beautiful gift to all our children and, someday, to their children and may have the power to do as much for preserving the classical repertoire as do the finest conservatories. With, of course, a nod and a wink and lots of chuckles along the way.
(by A music fan)
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