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Beethoven's Wig: Sing Along Symphonies |  | Artist: Beethoven's Wig
Label: Rounder / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $12.98
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Seller: festman
Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 2380
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 618112
UPC: 011661811225
EAN: 0011661811225
ASIN: B000060OLA
Release Date: March 5, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Beethoven's Wig (5th Symphony, Beethoven) | | • | Franz Liszt the Famous Pianist (Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Liszt) | | • | Please Don't Play Your Violin at Night (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Mozart) | | • | Can You Can Can? (Can Can, Offenbach) | | • | Just For Elise (Fur Elise, Beethoven) | | • | Haydn's Great Surprise (Surprise Symphony, Haydn) | | • | Kings and Queens of England (Trumpet Tune, Purcell) | | • | Drip, Drip, Drip (Pizzicato from Sylvia, Delibes) | | • | Harmony (The Merry Peasant, Schumann) | | • | Hey Guitar Teacher (Bouree, Bach) | | • | Tchaikovsky's Cannonball (1812 Overture, Tchaikovsky) |
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Product Description
GENERAL FEATURES: Beethoven's Wig Sing Along Symphonies are zany stick-in-your-head lyrics set to the greatest hits of classical music. Filled with fact and fancy about the world's most notable composers and their masterpieces, each Sing Along Symphony opens the door to "serious music" in a way that's fun. As a bonus, the orchestral performance of each classical piece is included without lyrics. Educational entertainment for all ages.
Amazon.com
Inspired and wildly imaginative, Beethoven's Wig is one of the best introductions to classical music you could give to your children. Featuring snippets of 11 classical music staples--Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, et al.--the disc and its creators, Richard Perlmutter and friends, pour on the silly lyrics the first time around to familiarize young ears to the old masters. Then in the last half of the record, the orchestra plays the same "serious" music pieces instrumentally. You might cheerfully recall Alan Sherman's popular spoofs of old classical works in Wig and you'll again chuckle at pieces like "Drip, Drip, Drip," which adapts Delibes's "Pizzicato from Sylvia." You'll also marvel at the expertise throughout the CD, with all the pieces well played yet thoroughly fun. Beethoven's Wig is an orchestral treasure with a sense of humor as old or as new as its listeners (and the fun questions that run throughout the CD's liner notes are almost as entertaining as the zany musical interludes). Highly recommended. --Martin Keller
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| Customer Reviews:
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 wonderful for any age July 29, 2009
Cora (US)
My kids, 4 1/2 & 11 yrs., love all these 4 sing-along symphonies, and the first one is their favorite.
The entire family loves this CD May 12, 2009
C. Gainey (Burlington NC)
From 4 years old to 40 years old, each of us enjoys Beethoven's Wig. We have #1 and #2 and I could not tell you which the kids enjoy more - but I do have a slight preference for #1. I'm online now getting ready to purchase #3 and #4 will be for Christmas. I'm also buying #1 for a baby shower gift. My friend is not particularly "into" classical music but she laughed a good bit listening to our CD's then she asked for them for her soon-to-be child.
Beethoven's Wig February 26, 2009
Angela Arcara (Greensburg, PA United States)
My kids LOVE this CD! They play it over and over everyday! I can't wait to try the next volume!
 Music Notes February 16, 2009
Music Mama
This product is a great way to introduce the classics to children. Once they know the words, they enjoy singing along. The selections are good,and the words are humerous.
"Mommy, Mommy, it's Tchaikovsky . . ." February 1, 2009
Carol C. (Kansas City, MO USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic CD on so many levels -- Perlmutter has added witty, silly, yet often educational lyrics to some of the most recognizeable melodies in classical music. Most of the lyrics include some information about the composer, so that anyone who listens a few times will at least learn the composer's name, perhaps the popular name of the melody, and a few other facts. For example, "Beethoven's Wig . . . . is very big" is sung to the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth. "The crowds were cheering at the concert hall (rah rah) the night Tchaikovsky shot the cannon ball (boom bah)" is sung to the 1812 Overture. A ditty about the Schumann family is sung to Schumann's Happy Farmer. Some lyrics are educational, such as "All the Kings and Queens of England," which names, sequentially all the kings & queens of England. Others are just plain fun, such as "All the girls in Paris France, love to do the can can dance . . " set to Offenbach's can can.
This CD doesn't present itself as a substitute for concert-style music, sans lyrics, performed in a serious manner by first-rate classical musicians. But it is an entertaining supplement, for both kids and adults. I love it when my daughter hears music on the radio and shouts out, "Mommy, it's Tchaikovsky" or "Mommy, Beethoven, listen. . ." -- and I'm pretty sure that the reason she is able to connect the composer to the music is because of what she learned listening to Beethoven's Wig.
Personally, my favorite of the four Beethoven's Wig collections published to date is Beethoven's Wig, Vol. 2: More Sing-Along Symphonies followed closely by #1; they're pretty much neck and neck. Beethoven's Wig 3: Many More Sing-Along Symphonies gives broad exposure to different instruments, but the lyrics are much less memorable. Beethoven's Wig 4: Dance Along Symphonies includes a broader array of music, such as John Philip Sousa and Scott Joplin. I've given #1 and #2 as gifts on several occasions and they always seem to be a hit.
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