Lisa Rae Vaughan, Executive Direc- Slawianowski) who opens the class
tor of the Lisa Rae Music Studios, with a welcome song and ends the
LLC and center director of Music To- class with a lullaby. The majority of
gether® classes, will be the first to the class is spent immersing the kids
tell you that only 2% of humans are in a musical wonderland made up of
naturally gifted at music. The other formulaically designed, eclectic, mu-
98% of us? Well we’re all on an equal sic meant to stimulate the children’s
playing field, just musical clay ready growing brains as well as plant the
to be molded and transformed into seeds of musical passion. When the
Mozart-esque figures. It’s commonly music plays, the children bounce and
known that children can learn a new move to the rhythm, as if the song
language with minimal effort, and, was moving them itself. They shake
not surprisingly, music is the same their plastic (kids safe) toys in rhythm
er
way. This is why Lisa Rae Music Stu- and after a minute of the song starting
ew Mey
dios host classes that enroll children even the youngest child is in sync. If
up to the age of five years old near the child is confused they look to their
Pittsburgh, in Robinson Township and parents, or an older child, who is sing-
| Photos: Andr
Coraopolis. ing and clapping along and they soon
begin to mimic their actions. It’s a
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Classes are as traditional as eating beautiful eco-system that forms inside
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pizza for Thanksgiving, but the farther of these classes. As Jeremy, father of
r
ee to visi
away from the cookie cutter classes Tessa, said, “I thought it was joke, but
eel f
the better. Instead of isolating chil- it’s surprisingly organized.”
dren one-on-one with a teacher, there
are up to 12 of them in a class at a “Most music learning will happen at
time, each with a guardian there for home,” Vaughan says. Less and less
guidance and role modeling. There families are gathering around pianos
is a teacher (in the class I visited, it to sing songs, but this will hopefully ormation on classes and a schedule f
was a pleasant, generous, caring and remedy that. Families are given two or inf
• F
extremely perceptive Lauren Garcia- CDs of the class music (one for the car
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