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 session
    • Registration for the spring session opens March 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
Music Together Generations
Music Together Babies
Rhythm Kids
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Music Together Online

Instructor: Melissa Ludwa and Laura Betinis Healy

With Music Together Online, music class comes to you!

SPRING 2021

In our Music Together session, every week for ten weeks, Crescendo Academy’s Music Together specialists will lead your whole family in fun music activities using songs from the Triangle Song Collection for younger kids or the Jaguar collection for Rhythm Kids.  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 (class starts the week of April 12)
Friday:  10:00 a.m. – Melissa Ludwa (class starts the week of April 5)
Saturday:  10:00 a.m. – Laura Betinis Healy (class starts the week of April 12)

Music Together Online: Rhythm Kids Level 1
In this online experience, kids ages 4 (with prior Music Together experience) – 7 and a parent or caregiver are invited to explore the world of rhythm through our Jaguar Song Collection! The Jaguar Rhythm is adapted from the duple-meter drumming patterns of Puerto Rico’s Bomba dancing, an interplay where the drummer tries to follow the dancer’s movements. We’ll get to try it out ourselves with the song “Bailen Niños.” We’ll sing, dance and drum along to the lively patterns of “Ayiko, Ayiko,” a welcome song from Southern Ghana. In “Singing’ My Song,” we’ll sing and move to our own song…and everyone else’s! And, perhaps best of all, we’ll get to experience the joys of being a “Jaguar in the Jungle.” All 22 selections in this collection have been chosen and arranged specifically to support each student’s music development. This class meets weekly for ten weeks.

Rhythm Kids Classes:
Thursday:  6:00 p.m. – Melissa Ludwa

Class Fees:

10-week session price is $185 per family; needs-based financial aid available.

 

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Mixed Age Classes - Outdoors

Instructors: Melissa Ludwa, Caitlyn Bodine, and Annie Dastoli

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 which 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, which supports all learning and provides an opportunity for children to attain basic music competence that is needed 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.), and Mrs. O’s Preschool (8025 Moorsbridge Rd.).

Class Session:

This spring we’ll jump and jive with “Allee Galloo,” go to the beach with “Maria Isabel,” and create jazzy rounds with “Hey, Ho, Nobody Home”—just to name a few of the 25 songs and chants in the Triangle Song Collection. In addition to your weekly classes, your tuition includes materials for you to use at home, access to the online Family Music Zone, a family newsletter full of resources and music-making ideas, and a musical spring PJ party!

Class Days and Times:

These Music Together classes are offered outdoors.

Monday: 9:45 am  at Winchell DOC – Melissa Ludwa–wait list only
Monday: 11:00 am  at Winchell DOC – Melissa Ludwa
Monday: 5:15 pm at Winchell DOC – Melissa Ludwa–wait list only
Wednesday: 10:00 am at Portage United Church of Christ – Caitlyn Bodine–wait list only
Wednesday: 4:45 pm at Mrs. O’s Preschool – Melissa Ludwa–wait list only
Wednesday: 6:00 pm at Mrs. O’s Preschool – Melissa Ludwa

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-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.

Music Together Generations
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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.

Music Together® Babies
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Online Music Together Babies

Instructor: Melissa Ludwa

Babies love music. This will come as no surprise to you if you’ve ever soothed your newborn to sleep with a lullaby or bounced him to the beat of your favorite song. But did you know your son or daughter is also a natural music–maker? It’s true: we are each born equipped to respond to music from a remarkably early age. There is a lot you can do to nurture your new little musician and making music together from the very beginning will lead to a lifetime of shared musical enjoyment. The Music Together® Babies Class will start you on the path to becoming a musical family. Specifically designed for infants eight months and younger, this 10-week introduction to Music Together® allows babies to embrace, enjoy, and express their inborn musicality.

Class Days and Times:

Wednesday:  12:00 p.m. – Melissa Ludwa

Class Fees:

Music Together® class fees are due by the first day of each session. The fee for the 10-week sessions are $185 per child. The fee for the 6-week summer session Mixed Ages class is $125.00 for the first student. 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.

Music Together® Rhythm Kids
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Rhythm Kids

Instructor: Melissa Ludwa

Rhythm Kids classes are for ages 4-6 and a caregiver. In each weekly 45 minute music class, we drum, sing, move, and play to rhythms inspired by musical traditions around the world, from West African Gahu, to Japanese Taiko, to Brazilian Samba, just to name a few.

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.

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 at home. 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:

The Jaguar Rhythm is adapted from the duple-meter drumming patterns of Puerto Rico’s Bomba dancing, an interplay where the drummer tries to follow the dancer’s movements. We’ll get to try it out ourselves with the song “Bailen Niños.” We’ll sing, dance and drum along to the lively patterns of “Ayiko, Ayiko,” a welcome song from Southern Ghana. In “Singing’ My Song,” we’ll sing and move to our own song…and everyone else’s! And, perhaps best of all, we’ll get to experience the joys of being a “Jaguar in the Jungle.” All 22 selections in this collection have been chosen and arranged specifically to support each student’s music development.

Class Days and Times:

Monday:  6:30 p.m. –  Outdoors at Winchell DOC Church (2208 Winchell Ave.)–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 Rhythm kids is $185 for the first student, $115 for a sibling. 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.

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.