I'm Ruth Schechter, and I've been making music with young children and their families for the past 25 years. I grew up in a family where music was part of our daily lives: we sang in the car, we sang to blow out traffic lights, we sang to entertain ourselves as we walked to the beach. Learning to play an instrument was simply part of growing up. I studied cello and later performed, taught, and recorded professionally. But once I had kids, making music with them seemed the most important thing. And when I realized how many people don’t know or have forgotten how to play with music, teaching that became my passion and my career. Music making is too much fun to leave for the professionals!

Using rhythm instruments, everyday play materials, and our own voices, we make music in lots of ways that you can easily carry back home. These parent/child classes are playful and improvisatory, mixing movement and song with personal attention and social interaction. We all have music inside us. Here’s a way to help bring it out.

>> Download the Fall 2007 Registration Form.
>> Click here to download a sample song. (MP3 format).