'Music Together' Comes to Arena's Performing Arts in Moon
The early-childhood education program pairs kids with parents to sing, dance and listen together.
These aren't your parents' music lessons, Lisa Rae Vaughan said. "Drums, jingle bells, shakers, scarves—it's very free-form," said Vaughan, a 20-year music educator from Hopewell. "This is not a teacher standing up there saying, 'You need to know this, or you need to know that.'" Vaughan is a certified instructor for "Music Together," an early-childhood music program that pairs kids with their parents as they learn basic musical concepts through singing, dancing and listening. "Music education supports all education," Vaughan said. "It helps them to develop those cognitive skills." Vaughan's program, offered at the Sweetwater Center for the Arts and the Laughlin's Children's Center in Sewickley, will now have a home at Arena's …
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Francine
11:33 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
It was a great time. Me and my daughter were introduced to Music Together at Sweetwater in Sewickley. My daughter at the time was 18mos old. We took the class with Lauren Garcia-Slawianowsk. Now my daughter has been taking piano for about one year now. The relationship with Lauren and my daughter is fantastic and my daughter loves going every week. Thank you Lisa Rae for a wonderful program and … more ›