Teaching Resources

10 folk songs arranged for voice and piano in a simple style appropriate for beginners and classes by Jay Althouse .

Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Symphony comment on and perform Raval's Bolero. 

25 favorite songs from the first season of the Parent's Choice Award-winng PBS Kids Series by John Feierabend.

Parent's Choice Award-winning PBS Kids show, based on John Feierabend's First Steps in Music curriculum, breaks new ground for its great songs, engaging story, and educational content. 

Folk song collections for PreK-2 and 2-8 with Mari Schay's suggestions for teaching concepts and vocabulary, adding instruments, cultural info and performance tracks.

The riveting story of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra during the time of Hitler.

by Mark Rubin, illus. Alan Daniel narrated on DVD by Peter Ustinov.  A superb intro to classical music and the orchestra and its instruments.

Mark Rubin,illus by Alan Daniel

In the book by Lloyd Moss, a clever counting rhyme introduces instruments and ensembles.  Filmed on locationat Julliard School, LeVar Burton visits with an orchestra of 8 to 18 year-old and the performers of STOMP!

On this family album, Sarah and her family and friends continue the Guthrie song-making tradition forged by Sarah’s grandfather, Woody Guthrie.