Music Together of West Hartford and Farmington Valley Announces Upcoming 10-week Spring Session and 8-Week Special Babies Class

Online Registration and Enrollment Opens February 28, 2014

West Hartford, CT: February 11, 2014:  Research-based early childhood music and movement program, Music Together of West Hartford and Farmington Valley, will start a new 10-week spring session beginning the week of March 31, 2014.  Online registration opens on February 28, 2014 for all new and returning families and special demo classes will be offered from March 24-26th for new families to experience the joy of Music Together first hand. 

A pioneer in early childhood music and movement education since 1987, Music Together is an internationally recognized music and movement program for families. Music Together’s research-based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music curriculum strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement and is based on the recognition that all children are musical and that all children can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat, and participate with confidence, provided that their early environment supports such learning. 

A Music Together class is a community of children and caregivers sharing songs, playing instruments, chanting rhythms, and moving in a relaxed, playful, and non-performance-oriented setting.  Each semester focuses on a song collection, characterized by its own graphic, color, and instrument. The music is pitched in just the right range for children’s voices and features great arrangements of original and traditional songs in a wide variety of tonalities, meters, and cultural styles.

“Young children learn through play and by watching and listening to the grownups who love them,” says Catherine Madrak, Center Director of Music Together of West Hartford and Farmington Valley. “Setting an example as an excited participator in musical play is the best thing any parent or caregiver can do to help set a child on the road to a lifelong love of music.”

Music Together of West Hartford and Farmington Valley offers a mixed age class designed for children ages birth through Kindergarten and a special babies class for infants 0-8 months.  The mixed age class follows the recommendations of early child development researchers, which suggest that grouping children of a variety of ages fosters natural, family-style learning.  The Babies Class is especially designed for babies 8 months and younger and parents who want to learn as much as possible about music development in infants.  The Babies curriculum couples fascinating research about how infants process and respond to music with engaging music and movement activities.

Weekly classes are held in West Hartford at Congregation Beth Israel and St. James’s Episcopal Church, and in Simsbury at First Church of Christ.  To register for the spring session, a free demo class, or for questions about the Music Together program, please visit www.MusicTogetherWHFV.com, email the Music Together Center at info@musictogetherWHFV.com, or call 860.206.8962.

About Music Together of West Hartford and Farmington Valley:

Music Together of West Hartford and Farmington Valley, LLC is a licensed Music Together center individually operated by a center director. The center serves families throughout the area with class locations in West Hartford and Simsbury.