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Debussy, Bartók, Stravinsky for kids

posted 8 years ago by fontinau
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So you know how they have things like Beethoven Lives Upstairs - those short biopic and bio-audiobooks that are supposed to teach kids to like a composer's music?

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_srch_drd_B004NGWDYI?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=Classical%20Kids&index=digital-music&search-type=ss

https://www.amazon.com/Composers-Specials-DVD-Collectors-Set/dp/B000FA5ETW/

And in German:

https://www.amazon.de/Klassik-für-Kids/e/B007JKPPS6/works/ref=ntt_mus_teaser?

https://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_de_DE=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&url=search-alias%3Dclassical&field-keywords=karlheinz+böhm+&rh=n%3A255966%2Ck%3Akarlheinz+böhm+

(I dunno about other languages.)

So maybe Schönberg's never going to be popular and the jury's still out on Messiaen or whoever. But Debussy, Bartók, and Stravinsky are widely popular/respected enough that it should be time for somebody to start pushing them on the nerdy kids this way, right?

(I'd also say Mahler, Richard Strauss, Ravel & Gershwin, but then somebody might say "Well if they all make the cut then so should Prokofiev and Shostakovich" and I just can't right now.)

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[–] christomacin 8 years ago

How about a Penderecki For Baby CD? That should really go over well. 
Or how about Baby's First Stockhausen? I can just see the lawsuits now!

[–] cham313 8 years ago

Or how about Baby's First Stockhausen? I can just see the lawsuits now!

For defense lawyers this could be the next biggest thing since the Twinkie defense.

[–] christomacin 8 years ago

The Dodecaphonics made me do it, Your Honor!

Hooked On Dodecaphonics...now there's a marketing idea!