Article: Enchanting your child with music. (Isaac Stern)(News You Can Use) (interview)

When should a child be introduced to music?

Music is the most natural activity for a human being, and it should be a part of everyday life. A child should learn music just as he learns reading, writing and arithmetic; it should be just as central in his education. From the moment a child is born, he can be put to sleep with a song and awakened with a quartet by Haydn or a Bach cantata. There are dozens of wonderful musical videotapes for small children.

I was at Yo Yo Ma's the other day, and he had 30 videos and tapes in a basket for his children, classic tales like Kipling's Just So Stories set to music. They're put out by Sesame Street and Disney, by ...

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