Kindermusik Take 2!
Posted on Sun, Feb 28, 2010 @ 08:05 AM
Kindermusik--the leading program in early-childhood music education--has been
offered to families in New Jersey's Hunterdon County since 1981, when it was introduced to the local community by Donna Cooper. Teaching at first out of her home, Donna grew her Kindermusik studio from just a few students to one of the world's largest Kindermusik programs. As operations outgrew facilities time and again, her "Cooper Music Studio" was to move a total of four times until in 2007 it became part of Hunterdon Academy of the Arts at 4 Minneakoning Road in Flemington.
A visionary with a great passion for children's education, Donna was among the first educators in the U.S. to teach Kindermusik, a program that as it name suggests, originated in Germany, before spreading around the globe.
We were deeply touched when one day we noticed that we actually had children in our Kindermusik program whose parents themselves had once been Kindermusik students of Donna Cooper's! What's more, when in 2008 we appointed Kimberly Hill to conduct our long-standing Hunterdon Youth Choir, she revealed that she, too, began her musical training as a child in Donna's Kindermusik classes, and that conducting this choir had been a life-long dream of hers!
Although we are great believers in the scientifically documented benefits of Kindermusik training, there is no stronger testimony to the awesome power of Kindermusik than seeing it manifest across generations.
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