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April 21, 2010

Free Shipping  for Facebook fans on all prepaid orders in the USA through April 25.  Sign up now if you’re not already a fan, and use the Promocode posted on our wall when you shop at Music in Motion. 

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50 Festivals & Places to See Live Jazz

April 21, 2010

Keep this schedule handy, support live performances, and best of all enjoy yourself at these wonderful live jazz events:
Jazz Festivals & Places to See Live Jazz Part 1 
Jazz Festivals & Places to See Live Jazz Part 2
Jazz Festivals & Places to See Live Jazz Part 3

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Opera/Ballet Live in Cinema series: Dallas metroplex

April 20, 2010

This took a little research to find, but thought that opera and ballet fans in the  Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex would find this theater schedule handy for upcoming productions from major opera/ballet companies around the world. How exciting is this! Gather up your friends or your music class and plan a night at the opera, Texas [...]

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See Live European Operas in Local Movie Theaters

April 18, 2010

Enjoy front row seats at the latest operatic productions from Milan’s La Scala and Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, as well as from other European venues, all in the comfort of your local movie theater.  Join opening night audiences throughout the world to experience these outstanding operas in digital HD.  Oh brave new world that [...]

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Kids Interactive Music Link: Xploring Xtremes

April 18, 2010

ArtsEdge, Kennedy Center’s interactive website for music and arts education, is a free online resource  every teacher, librarian, parent, and caregiver should know about, but probably doesn’t. 
One of my favorite features was Xploring Xtremes. Kids can explore and analyze musical extremes in dynamics, tempo, and other elements of music, through a variety of listening, [...]

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Jennifer Higdon Wins Pulitzer for Violin Concerto

April 13, 2010

Photo by Candace DiCarlo
                 PRODIGY (not), PULITZER WINNER (yes)
Brooklyn-born Jennifer Higdon was a late comer to music, not beginning formal studies until she was 18.  A self-taught flutist, she did not begin to study composition until she was 21.  From this laid-back musical beginning, she has since catapulted herself onto center stage, becoming one of [...]

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Spring Catalog: A Touch of the Old West

March 9, 2010

Westward Ho! Our Texas roots got the best of us in our new spring catalog, which should be arriving in your mailbox any day, if it hasn’t already. We have lots of interesting new materials in all categories, but I think you and your kids will especially enjoy the pioneering spirit of the Old West, [...]

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Holiday Gift Tips for Musicians of All Ages

December 15, 2009
Holiday Gift Tips

Musical gifts for all ages. The Music Instinct DVD (with Bobby McFerrin) explores not just how we make music but why. B. B. King introduces the blues to kids. Sing-along to learn musical styles in Bake Me A Pie. Over the Top documentary follows young performers. Dot the Musical dragon is hip with babies.

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Gustavo Dudamel: A Revolutionary Musical Hero

December 15, 2009
Gustavo Dudamel

Gustavo Dudamel, classical music’s hottest young star and new LA Philharmonic director, spearheaded a musical revolution in Venezuela that affected thousands of young, poor and at-risk students.

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MAO’S LAST DANCER: Autobiography, Children’s Books, & Movie

December 15, 2009
Mao's Last Dancer

11-yr.-old Li Cunxin is taken from his family to train at the Beijing Ballet Academy during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. He dances his way to freedom and international acclaim when he courageously defects to the USA. 3 versions of this incredible true story: for adults, young readers, and children.

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Spike Jones – Dec. 14

December 14, 2009
Spike Jones

This bandleader and musical parodist used “found sounds” from hiccups to gunshots in his musical spoofs, paving the way for STOMP, Blast, P.D.Q. Bach, Frank Zappa, Monty Python, & others. He (and Donald Duck) even spoofed Hitler, who probably wasn’t amused.

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Oliver Messiaen – Dec. 10

December 12, 2009
Bird Song

“I give bird-songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them. . .and paint colors for those who see none.” —Messiaen. He used birdsongs and colors as no musician ever had before, bringing beauty and hope even to fellow prisoners in a German POW camp.

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Joshua Bell – Dec. 9

December 9, 2009
Joshua Bell

Will the busy world stop and listen to a subway violinist at rush hour, even if he is Joshua Bell? If only we had the ears and heart of a 3-yr.-old. . .

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Kennedy Center Honors Musicians Brubeck, Bumbry, Brooks, & “Bruce the Boss”

December 8, 2009
Thumbnail image for Kennedy Center Honors Musicians Brubeck, Bumbry, Brooks, & “Bruce the Boss”

2009 Kennedy Center annual gala honors musicians Brubeck, Bumbry, Brooks & “Bruce the Boss” for a lively evening of jazz, opera, musical comedy, and rock.

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GRACE BUMBRY: Singer as Athlete

December 8, 2009
Grace Bumbry

“A superb singer is really a highly trained athlete. You must stay in training.” – Grace Bumbry. Transforming herself from mezzo to high soprano proved her point.

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Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy’s Story of Survival 1941-46

December 8, 2009
Hiding in the Spotlight

A gifted 14-yr.-old Ukrainian pianist adopts a new identity after escaping from a Nazi death march, but fears informants and the enemy officers who force her to entertain them. A terrifying and true story with a triumphant message of hope.

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Orchestras at risk from loss of IRA Charitable Rollover

December 7, 2009
IRA

Non-profit music and arts groups will suffer big losses in charitable donations if Congress fails to extend the IRA Charitable Rollover by the end of 2009. Act now to help save the arts.

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Ben Stevenson: Texas Ballet’s Big Gun

December 5, 2009
Ben Stevenson

Ben Stevenson, celebrating a 40-year career as one of the most acclaimed figures in American ballet, continues to supercharge the Texas Ballet, after turning the Houston Ballet into a worldclass company.

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On the Transmigration of Souls: A Musical Response to 9/11

November 30, 2009
John Adams

John Adams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work combines orchestra, chorus, & children’s choir with recorded sounds of 9/11, including victims names and cell phone calls.

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BAKE YOU A PIE: A Tasty Treat on Musical Styles

November 16, 2009
Pie

Baby, don’t cry. It’s time for pie! Pies and music are the ultimate comfort food, for little ones of every ilk, in Bake You a Pie, a hardback book and CD by Ellen Olson-Brown & Brian Claflin, illus. by Jeffrey Ebbeler. This story-song book with CD introduces some pretty silly pies, with clever rhyming verses, [...]

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Tom Paxton’s The Marvelous Toy

November 16, 2009
the Marvelous Toy

Legendary folksinger Tom Paxton’s latest children’s book/CD evokes wonder with The Marvelous Toy. CD has vocal & instrumental versions, plus 2 other songs.

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B.B. King Sings the One Shoe Blues

November 14, 2009
One Shoe Blues

Sandra Boyton’s humorous book & DVD starring B.B. King & the Singing Sock Puppets is a great intro to the blues. And who doesn’t get the blues when you lose your shoes! A great sing-along with the King of the Blues.

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Star Wars goes from classical film to classical music

October 28, 2009
Star Wars

Star Wars-based musical concert, complete with original score, costumes, and narrated by C3PO’s Anthony Daniels, lures young and old fans into the world of classical music.

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Where The Wild Things Are: At The Opera!

October 27, 2009
Where the Wild Things Are Opera

“Where the Wild Things Are” & “Higglety Pigglety Pop!” offer a kid-friendly intro to opera. “Let the wild rumpus start” in these fantasy operas by composer Oliver Knussen & author/artist Maurice Sendak.

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