Metro Plus
Bangalore
Chennai
Delhi
Hyderabad
Kochi
Thiruvananthapuram
Visakhapatnam
Kindergarten music comes of age...
MUSIC TODAY has come out with a music album devoted to children. Titled Happy Day, it was launched at the Vasant Valley School in New Delhi this past week. It was a wonderful experience for kindergarten kids -- 300 of them along with 40 students of Step-By-Step school -- to interact with the artistes, Ritika Sahni and Varsha Sheth, who jointly have come out with a collection of 15 nursery rhymes. Varsha has come out with composition and lyrics while Ritika has strained her vocal cords to come out with a fun-filled, peppy rhymes which children can instinctively dance to. There was a wave of excitement among children when they saw young Sarang, who had sung in the album, at the function.
The rhyme `Moo Moo' had the nursery children in raptures. `Action' song and `Rain' made the children jump with joy and dance in exhilaration. The duo believe that music not only soothes the mind and sounds good to the ear but is also a valuable teaching aid for children. The artists have tried their best to maintain a fine balance between the interest of children between the age of two and six and the needs of a nursey school. With its innovative lyrics and musical content, Happy Day is an amalgamation of educative lyrics along with foot tapping music. A beautifully illustrated book of lyrics is also there along with the album.
Ritika -- who is a gold medallist in music from Rabindra Bharti University -- has sung in English, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi and Bhojpuri. There are educational numbers like Solar System, Vegetables and Days of the Week, which are interspersed throughout the album so that children don't get bored listening to same numbers. `I Love Music' is an instructive number and rhymes like Rain, Rainbow and Lullaby try to make children sensitive towards nature. While `Marching' and `Action' songs unleash energy, `Aeroplane' and `Train' take them on a joyous journey so that it increases imagination of young minds. `Lollypop' is another song which kids can relate to as the singer himself is a child. Some of the rhymes also have Hindi verses.
Printer friendly
page
Send this article to Friends by
E-Mail
Metro Plus
Bangalore
Chennai
Delhi
Hyderabad
Kochi
Thiruvananthapuram
Visakhapatnam
|
