Beethoven's Wig: Sing Along Symphonies Music

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by: Richard Perlmutter

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Average Rating: Rating: - A Tremendous, Stupendous Hit at Our House! Everyone at my house loves this CD (brought to us by Grandma) -- my husband (classically trained musician), our 8 year old son ..., our 2 year old daughter (who dances around the family room to the tunes), and me. The lyrics Perlmutter has put to these grand warhorses of classical music are so witty and inventive you can't help chortling. And how he manages to get through these parodies with wonderfully straight performances is a great mystery to us all. Each of us has our own favorites. The 2 year old likes "Harmony." The 8 year old likes "Drip, Drip, Drip." I'm partial to "Kings and Queens of England" and "Hey Guitar Teacher." And all of us love the Night Music ("Sheep will never help me sleep!"). I also should mention that the music and the humor hold up to repeated listenings (which is good b/c with kids you get repeated listenings). Give this one a try. You won't regret it. Rating: - Eleven zany renditions of music In Beethoven's Wig, lyricist and singer Richard Perlmutter performs eleven zany renditions of music composed by some of the world's most famous names in classical music. The unique tributes comprising Beethoven's Wig include Franz Liszt the Famous Pianist; Please Don't Play Your Violin at Night (Mozart); Can You Can Can? (Offenbach); Just for Elise (Beethoven); Haydn's Great Surprise; Kings and Queens of England (Purcell); Drip, Drip, Drip (Delibes); Harmony (Schumann); Hey Guitar Teacher (Bach); Tchaikovsky's Cannonball; and the title piece Beethoven's Wig. Perlmutter succeeds in doing more than offering just another introduction to classical music for young listeners as the kids find themselves responding to the humorous lyrics even as they are becoming familiarized with the individual contributions of world class European composers. Beethoven's Wig is an enthusiastically recommended addition to family, school, and community library CD music collections. Rating: - A gift to children: lovable classics A couple of weeks ago, shortly after I tuned in the Today Show, I left the room for a minute and returned to find my 5-year old looking up from his play, mesmerized, at the TV. Richard Perlmutter was performing a selection from his new CD, "Beethoven's Wig." I'd never heard anything quite like it (Mozart with children's lyrics!) and found myself as drawn in as my son. But it wasn't until hours later, when I actually heard my son humming the melody from the beginning of "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik," that I realized what had transpired: my kid was singing classical music. We bought the CD, and have now listened twice together all the way through, from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Haydn and Offenbach and beyond. It's really delightful, from the first track to the last. And because Perlmutter had the good sense to also include the original versions of these classics without the lyrics, performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, now my son likes to sing the lyrics himself sometimes along with the orchestra version so that he's the only voice (classical karaoke, kid-style!). He'll outgrow that someday, no doubt, but he'll always have these incredible melodies forever -- thanks to "Beethoven's Wig" and Perlmutter's fertile imagination. We highly recommend it.

Beethoven's Wig: Sing Along Symphonies Music

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