Music Together® Classes

Music Together® is an internationally recognized early childhood music program offering 45 minutes of pure musical fun for you and your child each week. Accredited teaching artists introduce children to the pleasures of making music in a relaxed, playful, non-performance-oriented setting. You’ll receive CDs and songbooks tied to each session’s unique experiences for use at home. The national program’s e-newsletter, web resources and online store provide additional support for enriching your child’s and your family’s musical growth and enjoyment.

Music Together®

Each 2020-2021 session focuses on a different song collection:

  • 10-week fall session September 8 – November 9; Bongos collection
  • 3-week interim session – December 1 – December 21; Holiday Hits
  • 10-week winter session January 4 – March 8; Bells collection
  • 10-week spring session April 5 – June 11; Triangle and Jaguar collections
  • 6-week summer sessions June 14-July 30
    • Registration for the summer session opens May 14!

Music Together® art & logo design © 1992-2021 Music Together LLC. Music Together is a registered trademark. Crescendo Academy’s Music Together® is licensed by Music Together LLC. For more locations: https://www.musictogether.com/– (800) 728-2692.

Music Together Online
Mixed Age Classes
Rhythm Kids
Music Together Generations
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Music Together Mixed Ages Online

Instructor: Laura Betinis Healy

With Music Together Online, music class comes to you!

SUMMER 2021:  June 28 – August 2

In our summer session, every week for six weeks, Crescendo Academy’s Music Together specialists will lead your whole family in fun music activities using songs from the Harmonica Song Collection. Plus, you’ll get a songbook, recordings of the music, access to digital content, membership in a private Facebook group for enrolled families, and bonus activities so the musical fun can continue all week long! It’s the same high-quality music education for young children you expect from Crescendo Academy’s Music Together, in a convenient new format that will deepen your family’s bond as well as encourage your little one’s growth and development. You’ll be inspired to sing, dance, and jam together all week long!  These classes are for children ages birth through age seven and their parent(s) or caregiver(s).

Class Days and Times:

Mixed Age Classes: for ages 0-5
Thursday:  5:30 p.m. – Laura Betinis Healy
Saturday:  10:00 a.m. – Laura Betinis Healy

Class Fees:

6-week session price is $125 per family; need-based financial aid available.

 

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Mixed Age Classes - Outdoors

Instructors: Melissa Ludwa, Annie Dastoli, Angie Biehl, and Caitlyn Bodine

Music Together® Mixed Age classes are for children from birth through age 5 and their parent(s) or caregiver. The Music Together® award-winning curriculum is used in a playful, developmentally appropriate environment that utilizes singing, moving, playing instruments, and making music in a fun 45-minute class. This type of music-making is shown to enhance higher-order thinking skills in our children, supporting all learning and providing an opportunity for children to attain basic music competence before learning an instrument.

How do outdoor classes work? See the details here.

Outdoor Mixed Age classes are held at Winchell DOC Church (2208 Winchell Ave.), Portage United Church of Christ (2731 W. Milham Ave.), Mrs. O’s Preschool (8025 Moorsbridge Rd.), and Richland Area Community Center (9400 East CD Avenue).

Class Session:

The Harmonica Song Collection has a wonderful assortment of Music Together favorites, such as the foot stompin’ “Old Brass Wagon” and the playful “Two Little Kitty Cats.” Your family will delight in “cloc-ing” and “oinc-ing” along to the traditional Argentinian folk song, “Vengan a Ver,” as well as taking time for a snuggle as you sing along to the soft and soothing lullaby, “Raisins and Almonds.” In addition to your weekly classes, your tuition includes materials for you to use at home, access to the online Family Music Zone, and a family newsletter full of resources and music-making ideas. Join us for this session and fill your family’s summer with music, fun, and friendship!

Class Days and Times:

These Music Together classes are offered outdoors. Classes will meet twice per week for three weeks—discount for enrolling in both sessions.

Music Together Mixed Ages Outdoors, Session 1 (2 classes per week, June 14 – July 2)
Mon/Weds: 9:45 am – Winchell DOC church, Melissa Ludwa–wait list only
Mon/Weds: 5:15 pm – Winchell DOC church, Melissa Ludwa–wait list only
Mon/Weds: 6:00 pm – Richland Area Community Center, Annie Dastoli
Weds/Fri: 10:00 am – Portage United Church of Christ, Angie Biehl–wait list only

Music Together Mixed Ages Outdoors, Session 2 (2 classes per week, July 12 – July 30)
Mon/Weds: 9:45 am – Winchell DOC church, Annie Dastoli–wait list only
Mon/Weds: 6:00 pm – Richland Area Community Center, Annie Dastoli
Weds/Fri: 10:00 am – Portage United Church of Christ, Angie Biehl–wait list only

Class Fees:

Music Together® class fees are due by the first day of each session. The fee for the 10-week session Mixed Ages class is $185.00 for the first student, $115.00 for the second student; one sibling under 12 months old is free with paid tuition. The fee for the 6-class summer session Mixed Ages class is $125.00 for the first student, $75.00 for the second student; one sibling under 12 months old is free with paid tuition. You may pay by cash, check, MasterCard, Visa, Discover, or American Express for your convenience. Credit card payments can be accepted by phone or in person at Crescendo during regular office hours of 11:00 am to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday or at our Square store.

Missed Music Together® classes can be made up ONLINE ONLY if space is available; arrangements to make up a missed class can be made with the class instructor.

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Rhythm Kids Outdoors

Instructors: Melissa Ludwa and Angie Biehl

Rhythm Kids classes are for ages 4-6 and a caregiver. In each 45-minute class, students learn to compose, choreograph, and conduct as they play—and play with!—a variety of musical instruments: West African djembe drums, percussion instruments, and, the most important instruments of all, their voices and their bodies. As your big kid learns to think and create like a musician, they’ll also build musical connections to the global community.

How do outdoor classes work? See the details here.

Important note: There will be djembe drums for use in class. It is encouraged, but not required, that your child have a djembe drum to use. If you need an appropriate drum, we will have a high-quality djembe drum for purchase, or you may make your own arrangements for a drum.

Class Session:

This semester we’ll explore the Tiger Rhythm with drumming patterns from Mali and India. Children will discover the enchantment of Indian music through the song “Chandamaame Raave” and even learn to sing a verse in Telugu! We’ll explore body percussion, scatting, and part singing with “Singing in Harmony.” “Tiger, Tigress in the Night” will delight children with imaginative play, drumming, and dancing. And with “Tiger Tracks,” we’ll get to prowl and growl as we follow a tiger through his day.

Class Days and Times:

Music Together Rhythm Kids Outdoor, Session 1 (2 classes per week, June 14 – July 2)
Mon/Weds: 6:30 pm – Winchell DOC church, Melissa Ludwa

Class Fees:

Music Together® class fees are due by the first day of each session. The fee for the 6-class session of Rhythm Kids is $185 for the first student, $115 for a sibling. You may pay by cash, check, MasterCard, Visa, Discover, or American Express for your convenience. Credit card payments can be accepted by phone or in person at Crescendo during regular office hours of 11:00 am to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday or at our Square store.

Missed Music Together® classes can be made up if space is available; arrangements to make up a missed class can be made with the class instructor.

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Music Together Generations

Instructors: Caitlyn Bodine

If you’ve ever wished for an extra set or two of grandparents, then we have a class for you! The Generations music class is a Mixed-Age Music Together class with the sweetest twist: the addition of senior participants. Kids and their grownups visit their “Musical Grandfriends” at a local retirement home or senior center and spend time making music as a large extended family.

These intergenerational music classes for seniors and children are popular retirement home activities because the fun songs and children’s liveliness and laughter help to brighten up everybody’s day. Making music together connects people in ways that few other activities can, and this type of class bridges the generations by helping seniors, staff, parents, and kids form new and satisfying relationships

Crescendo offers Music Together Generations at Friendship Village of Kalamazoo (1400 N. Drake Road, Kalamazoo, 49009).

Class Days and Times:

All Music Together classes are currently online or outdoors.

Class Fees:

Music Together® class fees are due by the first day of each session. The fee for the 10-week session Mixed Ages Generations class is $185.00 for the first student, $115.00 for the second student. The fee for the 6-week summer session Mixed Ages class is $125.00 for the first student, $75.00 for the second student; one sibling under 12 months old is free with paid tuition. For your convenience, you may pay by cash, check, MasterCard, Visa, Discover or American Express. Credit card payments can be accepted by phone or in person at Crescendo during regular office hours of 11:00 am to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday, or at our Square store.

Missed Music Together® classes can be made up ONLINE ONLY if space is available; arrangements to make up a missed class can be made with the class instructor.

Resources

Crescendo will be closed during the Kalamazoo Public Schools winter (Christmas) and spring breaks. Morning Music Together® classes will be cancelled when area public schools close for snow days. If it becomes necessary for Crescendo to close, the closing will be announced via our voice mail system (269-345-6664), website, and Facebook pages.

Music Together® class fees are due by the first day of each session. The fee for the 10-week session class is $185.00 for the first student, $115.00 for the second student; one sibling under 15 months old is free with paid tuition. The fee for the 10-week summer session Mixed Ages class is $125.00 for the first student, $75.00 for the second student; one sibling under 15 months old is free with paid tuition. For your convenience, you may pay by cash, check, MasterCard, Visa, Discover or American Express. Credit card payments can be accepted by phone or in person at Crescendo during regular office hours of 11:00 am to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday, or at our Square store.

 

Missed Music Together® classes can be made up if space is available; arrangements to make up a missed class can be made with the class instructor.