Listening to peaceful music is a great way to relax and destress. If you combine listening to music with deep breathing, it has even more benefits. Music can reduce anxiety, calm nerves, and help you physically. Listen to the piece below by Debussy called Reverie. While you listen, sit quietly and practice breathing in time with the music. Breathe in for 4 counts, hold for 7 and breathe out for 8 counts. See if the music makes you picture a beautiful place.
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I have posted a list of the best of children's musicals below. How many of these have you seen? What are your favorites? Do you have a specific musical that you love to watch over and over, and you’ve learned the songs? Project: select a musical for you to watch with a family member. You are a film critic. Present your review of the film on a poster or in a newspaper article. Be sure to include information about the plot, the setting, the characters, and favorite songs. You can turn it in when you come back or submit to your classroom teacher. Here's one of my favorites to get you motivated! List of the Best Musicals for Children
Early Musicals Historians believe that musical theater began in ancient Greece about 2,500 years ago. The ancient Greeks staged comedies and tragedies that included music and dance in open-air amphitheaters. By the 1700s, opera, or the use of singers and orchestras to tell a story, became popular in Great Britain, France, and Germany. Operas could be funny, romantic, or tragic. The first musical theater performance to come to America took place in 1735, before the United States was even technically a country. Modern musical theater began in the mid- to late-1800s. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein were a successful American musical writing team. They created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, initiating what is considered the "golden age" of musical theatre. Five are award winning Broadway shows: Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, the King and I and The Sound of Music. One of the more recent musicals was first a movie: The Greatest Showman! Click on the Tab below to sing along with A Million Years. This song was performed by Fourth Graders last year at the Volunteer Breakfast. Andrew Lloyd Webber is a British Born Composer who has written many successful musicals. Click on the tab to see Mr. Webber perform a song from Phantom of the Opera in his own home.
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