Cieslak's Homeschool-journey
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It amazes me how much fun our music lessons are. I always liked music, but teaching it to my kids and learning so many cool and interesting facts about different composers, singers, movies and so on, sure is a special treat. In our last lesson we spoke about the movie Mary Poppins and not only were we able to listen to all of their cool songs, no, we also learned a great deal about how the movie came about. I didn't know, for example, that Walt Disney, after reading the book Mary Poppins, tried to persuade the author already in 1938 to make a movie out of the book, but because she didn't think the story could be made into a good movie and he was still inexperienced and made cartoons, she said no and she continued to say "no" until she gave her okay in 1961. So yeah, he kept asking her over and over again and she told him no for 23 years. Wow. Another amazing fact was that the song "Sister Suffragette" hadn't originally been written for Mrs. Banks, but for Mary Poppins. The lesson says: "The actress Glynis Johns (see picture below) thought by a mistake, that she was going to play Mary Poppins. Since she and Walt Disney felt pretty uncomfortable about the little misunderstanding, he told her, that they had a terrific new song just for her as Mrs. Banks. He then contacted his song writers (the Sherman brothers), told them that he would meet Glynis Johns for lunch and that she was looking forward to hearing her new song following the meal. The Sherman brothers took the hint and spent their lunch hour changing the lyrics to one of their songs that had been written for Mary Poppins, to a song for Mrs. Banks!" What a cool way of changing things around. ;) In today's lesson we learned about "harmony" (Harmony in fours) and "barbershop quartet" and were able to listen to some fun music because of it. I think I have become a new fan for some music groups I hadn't even heard of before this lesson. II Divo is one of those amazing groups I am talking about. I love this version of "Amazing Grace", even more when the bagpipe starts playing. (As a full-blown Scotland fan, it sure is wonderful sound to my ears.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYMLMj-SibU
The Oak Ridge boys are another group, I was very impressed with. I am a big country music fan, and so listening to the following song, was kind of cool. ;) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVLpEDwgdpM The funnest song, though, was definitely the "Peanut Butter and Jelly" love song. Haha, it isn't a normal song about romance, but the love between Peanut Butter and Jelly. So freaking cute and funny. :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K4TFtjaOWw
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AuthorI am a sarcastic German-born American citizen who loves life and enjoys writing. I am a mother of two boys and we are now experiencing the freakiest adventure of our lives. Archives
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