Foothills Music Together Announces Winter 2005 Session Starting January 17th

Free Demo classes are being offered the week of January 10th. Parents and children (birth to kindergarten) are welcome to attend these demos.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 15, 2005 -- Registration is now open (until Feb. 5) for Foothills Music Together winter 2005 classes.

Music Together offers dynamic musical education classes "for children from birth to kindergarten and the adults who love them," says Jeanina Quezada, Foothills Music Together director. We offer informal classes where children able to participate as much or as little as they choose," says Quezada. "All children are musical. When they see their parents enjoying, singing and dancing, they think, 'Theyre having fun. This must be fun'--so they join in."

Music Together encourages that fun by bringing parents or caregivers and children into the classroom for ten 45-minute sessions of rhythm, movement, singing and music making (classes are not performance

oriented).

The program differentiates itself from other childhood music programs by stressing a well-researched philosophy on its approach to music education, which emphasizes these points: all children are musical, all children can achieve a basic level of music competence, it is essential to have the adults in any childs life as an active participant in his/her musical education and--best of all-that that education should be fun and feel fully accessible to the child AND the adults in class.

To that end, the classes use original and folk music composed and arranged by the founder/director of Music Together, Kenneth Guilmartin. A professionally recorded tape, CD, songbook, parent guide and a Parent Education Night are included in the price of tuition. Each session uses instruments, songs and plenty of action to achieve its goals--letting children learn music while having fun.

Quezada notes that parents/caregivers who attend with their children are thrilled by the fact that the classes are so movement oriented--if they want to jump up and dance they can. Parents also consistently comment on the fact that the music moves them. And, as Quezada points out, if it moves the parents to participate, it's more likely to move the children.

Classes are held at six different locations in the area:

Pasadena (Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, 1118 North Allen Avenue)

Silver Lake (Silver Lake Presbyterian Church, 2930 Hyperion Blvd., LA)

Montrose (Performing Arts Studio 3601 Ocean View Blvd.)

Eagle Rock (Yoga Essence, 1577 Colorado Blvd)

Monrovia (Monrovia Dance Ctr., 414 W. Foothills Blvd.)

Glendale (Glendale Yoga Studio 746 N. Glendale Ave.)

For full demo and class schedules and details, contact Foothills Music

Together at 629.398.4159, ext. 2, or visit their web site at

www.foothillsmusictogether.com

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