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Bayou Bend, Family Day Sunday May 19th
I’ll be at The Bayou Bend on Sunday May 19th for their Family Day, with a station offering interactive music-time demonstrations throughout the day, as families walk through. Hope to see you there! https://www.mfah.org/calendar/bayou-bend-family-day-musical-traditions/201905190100PM
BAYOU BEND FAMILY DAYS
Bayou Bend Family Day “Musical Traditions”
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An amazing afternoon of fun and entertainment awaits at Bayou Bend Family Days! Find activities, demonstrations, and performances throughout Bayou Bend’s gardens and historic mansion. Enjoy tours of the first floor of the house, hosted by volunteers from Houston Junior Woman’s Club.
► Theme: Musical Traditions
Celebrate the history of music and musicians in the United States. Bayou Bend’s founder, Ima Hogg, was also a founder of the Houston Symphony and a great lover of music. Explore the wide variety of styles and influences on early American music through performances and activities.
This event is free! Drop in to participate. Last admission is at 4:30 p.m.
All You Need Is Love (Mister Bradley’s New Christmas has dropped!)
It’s here folks! And makes a great stocking stuffer! Click below to give the whole album it listen!
TRACKLIST:
Season’s Greetings!
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Rockin Around The Christmas Tree
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Jingle Bell Rock
The Christmas Song
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
50 Worlds For Snow
Frosty The Snowman
Feliz Navidad!
Twelve Ways To Say Merry Christmas
Mele Kalikimaka
Here Comes Santa Claus
Jingle Bells
You’ll Find What You Need
All You Need Is Love (Lennon/McCartney)
Walking In A Winter Wonderland
Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel
Have Yourself a Merry LIttle Christmas
Merry Christmas and Good Night
Midnight Clear
Jingle Bells [feat. Mike Roberts
Jingle Bell Rock/¡Feliz Navidad!
Hey Rockstars! Er m’gosh! Soooo Excited! Everything has been recorded and now it’s all about mixing and singing names. Here’s a double-feature for you: Jingle Bell Rock, followed by ¡Feliz Navidad!. (No customized names in these recordings… YET!) If you haven’t ordered yet, please do it soon. I suspect things are going to get real backed up by the time Black Friday comes!
$40 for a customized CD (plus $5 shipping) or $30 for just a download version.
EMAIL ME! bradblanco@gmail.com
Movin’ right along!!!
Mister Bradley customized Holiday CD update: I recorded the instrumentals today for “The Christmas Song” and “Jingle Bell Rock”. I’m so stoked! Also, here are some mock-ups for how the covers might look. In addition to a customized cover with your little one’s name in the title, I’ll be taking orders for favorite colors too! Who else would like to “Pledge-to-Order”? Email me! bradley@misterbradley.com . I’m looking for 12 more pledges before I really start cutting a rug over here. CDs will be 40 bucks.
Mister Bradley performing this Saturday & Sunday at Houston’s Children Museum
I hope your Thanksgiving was fantastic!
And I want to spread the word: Mister Bradley will be performing at the Houston Children’s Museum this Saturday and Sunday in the auditorium. 3:00pm on both days. Come on out! And make musical merriment with us!
Details here:
http://www.cmhouston.org/event/mister-bradley’s-musical-jam-childrens-museum
Love,
Bradley
The Week of Jan 20, 2014
The Week of Jan 20th, 2014
Greetings Rockstars!
I have a lot of video links here for this letter. And I think it could be a great way to enhance your child’s experience in music class last week. I urge you to share these videos with them and talk about them!
Last week we learned about the difference between “polyphonic” and “monophonic”. Polyphonic instruments are instruments that can play more than one note at a time, like a piano or a guitar. Monophonic instruments can only play one note at a time. With some exceptions, wind instruments like trumpets and flutes, are monophonic.
To demonstrate this point, I had a recorder, a tibetan ritual horn, and a train whistle.
The recorder is monophonic. And I demonstrated playing the refrain melody from John Phillips Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever”. Children enjoyed guessing what had both stripes AND stars. (Not a zebra, not the nights sky…buuuut…)
I have a video here below of a recorder being played with an orchestra. And since your child has seen one played in class, I think it would be an interesting connection for them to make if you choose to watch this video with them. See if they can point out the recorder flute:
The tibetan horn is also a monophonic instrument. I had a small tibetan horn for a demonstration. Although I was bummed I couldn’t find one as big as the one in this video;)
The train whistle, on the other hand is polyphonic, since it has 4 holes that all get blown at the same time, to make that signature “train sound”. The kids recognize this instantly. (And of course, we enjoyed singing “I’ve Been Working On The Railroad”)
REGISTER FOR THE SPRING NOW! and “BUG WEEK” at Opus One!
Hi Rockstars!
For parents with children at the CATHEDRAL SCHOOL, RICE CHILDREN’S CAMPUS, or HEARTS HOME BRIGHT HORIZONS on VOSS:
If you have not signed up for Spring Opus One classes or if you’re not on auto-pay please do so right now!
If you’re child is not signed up this week, I won’t be able to have your child in class.
If you need more time or if you are sending in payment online tonite, shoot me an email and let me know, so I can be sure to have them in class.
I am at the CATHEDRAL SCHOOL Monday morning; RICE CHILDREN’S CAMPUS on Tuesday afternoon; and HEARTS HOME BRIGHT HORIZONS on Wednesday afternoon.
REGISTER HERE!
This past week was all about BUGS! That’s right. Bugs. We sang about ladybugs and pretending to make them crawl on our toes, ankles, knees, thighs, thumb, wrist, elbow, shoulder. We also talked about how ladybugs are good to have in your garden because they eat the bugs that eat your vegetables.
We enjoyed a few different renditions of Itsy Bitsy Spider, including one in Spanish as well as a silly one, The Great Big Harry Spider.
By the way, here is a link to a sample of a Mister Bradley recording of Itsy Bitsy Spider.
(CDs are still on sale! And if you’re extra nice, I can extend the holiday discount of 5 dollars off!. Give it a Listen!
We also sang about Caterpillars turning into Butterflies.
Students also got a demonstration with a snare drum and we used it to help us march to The Ants Go Marching 2×2, Hurrah, Hurrah. And we had fun coming up with new rhymes to go with each new number.
MISTER BRADLEY'S MUSICAL JAM! 