www.nyphilkids.org
New York Philharmonic for Kids
Take the Poll of the Day!
Explore the Instrument Storage Room!
Play in the Game Room!
Visit the Musicians' Lounge!
Go to the Instrument Lab
and experiment!
Read the Newstand!
Have fun in the
Composition Workshop!
View the Composers' Gallery!

www.dsokids.com
Dallas Symphony Orchestra for Kids
Meet the DSO Kid of the Month!
Play Games!
Listen to Music!
Make Your Own Instruments!
Sit in the Practice Chair!
Read the DSO Kids News!
Check out the
Orchestra Seating Chart!
Open the Instrument Encyclopedia
and hear many instruments!

www.pbskids.org
PBS Kids
Try it out!

www.sfskids.org
San Francisco Symphony for Kids
Visit The Music Lab, listen to the
Radio, and explore the
Instruments of the Orchestra!

www.classicsforkids.com
Great Web Site to Learn and Explore
all About Classical Music!

www.smithsonianjazz.org
Acclaimed Web Site All About JAZZ!

http://listeningadventures.carnegiehall.org/ypgto/index.aspx
The Young Person's Guide
to the Orchestra,
by Benjamin Britten
Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
Join Violet as she embarks on an
instrument safari to collect all the
instruments of the orchestra!

http://listeningadventures.carnegiehall.org/nws/splash.html
Dvorak's Symphony No. 9
"From The New World"
Navigate a musical and visual journey
to the New World
with Atonin Dvorak.

www.louisarmstronghouse.org
Visit the house that Jazz legend
Louis Armstrong lived in
in Corona, Queens, NY.

http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/features/highband/gourd_tree.html
Use your computer keyboard
to play the Gourd Tree,
a musical invention
by Harry Partch!

http://tv.disney.go.com/playhouse/littleeinsteins/music/
Go check out
Disney's Little Einsteins
and have fun with Music!

www.kusc.org
Fun Music Web Site
with
Great Listening Games & Activities!

www.creatingmusic.com
Want To Write Your Own Music?
This is a great place to start!
Plus Tons Of Great Games!

www.exploratorium.edu/music
Great Music Games!
Check out the Dot Mixer,
Kitchen Sink-o-pation,
and Step Re-Mix!

SEPTEMBER
Woody Guthrie - July, 14, 1912
American Composer of
This Land Is Your Land

OCTOBER
Camille Saint-Saens - October 9, 1835
French Composer of
The Carnival of the Animals and The Danse Macabre

NOVEMBER
Aaron Copland - November 14, 1900
American Composer of
Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring, and
Fanfare for the Common Man

DECEMBER
Ludwig van Beethoven - December 16, 1770
German Composer of
Hundreds of pieces and nine symphonies
including the famous Fifth and Ninth

JANUARY
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - January 27, 1756
Child Prodigy, Austrian Composer of over
600 pieces of music including
Eine Kleine Nachtmusic (A Little Night Music)

FEBRUARY
George Frideric Handel - February 23, 1685
Composer of the famous
'Hallelujah Chorus'
in The Messiah

MARCH
Johann Sebastian Bach - March 21, 1685
German Composer of over 1000 songs including the
Brandenburg Concertos and Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

APRIL
Sergei Prokofiev - April 23, 1891
Russian Composer of
Peter and the Wolf

MAY
Peter Tchaikovsky - May 7, 1840
Russian Composer of
The Nutcracker,
Romeo and Juliet,
Swan Lake
and the 1812 Overture

JUNE
Edvard Grieg - June 15, 1843
Norwegian composer of
the famous work,
the Peer Gynt Suite.