[HANASHIR:10215] Re: Piano music for young children

[Dr. Alan Mason <dralanmason...>]

Dear Linda,
     There are a couple of superb books available for five year olds.  
"Jewish Songs in Five-Finger Position" by Robert Shultz, and a collection of 
Jewish Favorites published by Bastien and edited by Ylda Novak.  The Bastien 
book is suitable for kids competing in the National Federation of Piano 
Teachers Festival held in every state during mid-February.   There is a 
category called "Hymn Playing" whose required pieces consist of endless 
Christian hymns along with about 3 selections (yippee!) of Jewish songs from 
the Bastien book.

Alan Mason
Doctor of Musical Arts
Pi Kappa Lambda



----Original Message Follows----
From: Barton1320 (at) aol(dot)com
Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
Subject: [HANASHIR:10214] Piano music for young children
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:50:57 EST

My daughter (age 5) is taking piano lessons.  Her teacher was looking for
some Chanukah music, age and ability appropriate, and was very surprised 
that
it was so difficult to find what she called "graded" Jewish holiday music.  
I
thought I'd query the list to see if anyone is aware of such type music to 
be
used in teaching piano?  (She did find The Dreydl Song and Chanukah,
Chanukah, and the music includes drawings of dreydls and musical notations,
very cute and readable for a 5 year old).

Thanks for any suggestions you have.

Linda Barton


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