On Sunday, all the attention moved to Susie, who had her first violin recital with the other students in Miss Cande’s violin studio! Susie played Allegro and Minuet 1 from her Suzuki book and then joined the advanced players for several fiddle songs. All the students played one of the first fiddle songs together, as […]
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The Kids’ First Piano Recital
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Music, Susanna, Tommy on May 25th, 2019
Tommy, Elizabeth, and Susanna have been taking piano for two and a half years, but with all of our travels, we’ve never managed to be in town when the teacher or studio was having a recital. We also had three different teachers in our first year and a half, which was a bit confusing for […]
More Love to Thee, O Christ
Posted in Music on Dec 13th, 2014
More love to thee, O Christ, more love to thee! Hear thou the prayer I make on bended knee; This is my earnest plea, More love, O Christ, to thee, More love to thee, more love to thee! Once earthly joy I craved, sought peace and rest; Now thee alone I seek; give what […]
Tommy Blogs: My First Trip to the Symphony
Posted in California, Homeschooling, Music, Tommy on Feb 26th, 2014
I liked going to the symphony. First there was Mother Goose suites and then there was music for a Brazilian carnival. And then (this is what we have been learning about), Pictures at an Exhibition! It was music composed to paintings because a man named Victor Hartmann painted many paintings and then he died when […]
This year has been a little disappointing on the Christmas music front. Elizabeth was too sick to go to CBS yesterday, so only Tommy got to sing in the children’s program Christmas recital. And the lighting was terrible, so the pictures are rough. He did a great job, though, singing the loudest of any kid […]
Derek uploaded some of our summer (!) videos this week. Here’s one of Elizabeth singing hymns.
Our Current Playlist
Posted in Music on Nov 14th, 2011
We’ve been on the search for good (preferably ESV) scripture memory music for some time now, and here’s what we’re listening to these days… The Seeds Family Worship CDs are great, upbeat, noncheesy albums with the kinds of verses we’d like to have memorized. The first several are NIV, but they’ve now switched over to […]
If it were up to the six churches we’ve visited out here thusfar, the kids wouldn’t have a clue what a hymnal was. Thankfully, both big kids love our nightly family worship time, in which we sing the hymns we never get to sing anywhere else. They run for the family worship shelf, grab hymnals […]
I’ve shared about picking a special hymn for Tommy and Elizabeth, and when we decided on the name of Susanna, we thought it would be appropriate to pick something by Charles Wesley as a nod to his mother, Susanna. Since the big kids are learning hymns in family worship time, they helped us pick out […]
This afternoon, Grandpa and Grandma pulled out their instruments to play duets for the kids. Within seconds of the first hymn, Tommy was on his way upstairs to make a duplo oboe… And once he joined in, Elizabeth had to go make one, too!