This Memo includes

• Feature Article: Music That’s Out Of This World!

• Student Hall of Fame

• Practice Tip

• Registration start dates for our in-person Crescendo Kids Classes

• Sign up link for our 2023 Spring Recital

• Parents Ask Pam - My child is 4 years old, but I think they are ready for 5 year old piano material. Can they be moved into the older class?

Feature Article - Music That’s Out Of This World!

Written by Sean Kenney, son of our piano teacher, Mr. Kevin.

There has been a great deal of music made over the course of human civilization; songs devised with thousands of miles separating them, and almost all of it created on earth. Almost.

Chris Hadfield is one of those people who seems to have pushed the limits of what a human can do in one lifetime. He is a writer, a mountain climber, an engineer, the first Canadian to walk in space, and a musician; he is perhaps most well known for that last one. Back in May of 2013 a music video was recorded - something Chris thought would be fun to do with his son - of Chris singing Space Oddity by David Bowie while on the International Space Station (ISS).

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This Memo includes

• Feature Article: Fanny Mendelssohn - One Chromosome Away From Fame

• Student Hall of Fame

• Practice Tip

• Parents Ask Pam - Do you teach children under age 3.5 years old?

Feature Article - Fanny Mendelssohn - One Chromosome Away From Fame

You may be familiar with Felix Mendelssohn, who wrote "Wedding March," the song frequently played at weddings as the wedding party exits the ceremony. However, his sister, Fanny Mendelssohn, was also a great performer and composer.

She was born in 1805, in Hamburg, Germany. Her mother claimed she had “Bach fugal fingers,” (Long, skinny fingers ready to easily to play a Bach Fugue.) correctly predicting her daughter’s talent and life ambition. By the age of 14, she had memorized all 24 preludes . . . .