| "I never expected to be able to sing a lullabye to my baby," said a parent in Pennington, New Jersey, "but something about those classes makes the music come right out of my mouth!"
Kenneth K. Guilmartin, founder and director of Music Together LLC, has been hearing the same song from parents of very young children for fifteen years now - that Music Together brings music, joy, learning, and a special relationship into their lives. This year thousands of families throughout the world will help celebrate Music Together's Fifteenth Anniversary.
In the mid-1980s, Mr. Guilmartin envisioned children and the adults who love them making music together, much as in the days before the advent of television and recordings - singing, playing instruments, and moving together, regardless of musical background. Such an environment of relaxed and pleasurable participation by all sets the model and provides the opportunity for children to develop the natural, inborn musical ability they all have and the program is not just about music - parents and caregivers also learn many new ways to play and interact with their children.
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