Playing records with no electricity!

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Monday’s hands-on science program, “The Science Behind Recording Music,” challenged tweens to come up with several iterations of a gramophone that could play the sound stored on a vinyl record with only their hands to power it. First tweens learned about the history of sound recording and its great inventors, then we […]

Craig Newton’s Really Big Music Show

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On August 8th, 2015 we had a special guest, Craig Newton, put on a music show for families in our Donald Wright Auditorium! He brought a ton of instruments and demonstrated them all to the kids, teaching them about how musical instruments work, as well as giving them exercises in […]

Summer Reading Kickoff: Read to the Rhythm!

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We had forty participants at our Kickoff program to our Summer Reading Challenge! Families came to our Studio On 4th to dance, make musical instruments and rock out! Here’s a video of some of the highlights of the program: We had a Wii set up for dancing:   We made […]

Family Storytime: The Blues

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You can skip reading the blog and just view the highlights… But you won’t be able to see the books very well. But it’s nice I was able to get a video with my laptop! Our storytime today was about the Blues. I’ve always wanted to do a storytime like […]

The Science of Making Music

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This afternoon we had a program at Pasadena Library about how to make a musical instrument–something that would produce not just noise, but definite pitches that you could change or manipulate. We learned about aerophones, chordophones, idiophones and membranophones, and then got a chance to make our own DIY instruments. […]

Celebrating the 1890s—Part Two: Who Was Claude Debussy?

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Today we had a special program in the library’s auditorium, celebrating the life and music of French composer Claude Debussy. We examined his childhood, his musical influences, his friendships with impressionist and symbolist painters and composers, and the explosion of beauty and artistic expression that was the Belle Epoque in […]

Brother Yusef

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The kids had such a great time singing, shaking and learning the blues with Brother Yusef at today’s Thursday Tunes and Tales.  You can find his CD Blues for Beginners at the Central Library or the Linda Vista Branch Library. Remember to join us next week for another fun-filled hour […]

Storytime Music used at Central Library

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Have you ever wondered where we get the music we use at our storytimes?  Would you like to check out the CDs to sing the music at home?  Kids love these songs and most of them are based on folk songs and songs that have a lot of action and […]

Infant & Toddler Storytime: Music for Winter 2014 Session

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One of the most enjoyable things about providing storytime is seeing the kids learn the different songs and rhymes we do and then begin to do them on their own.  I know a lot of parents want to check out some of the cds with the music we use for […]