“As a musician who does not have the time to figure this out for my own kids/family, THANK YOU! This is soul-filling for me. I am thankful for you, that you have created these resources, and that you made them affordable!”

~Erin

“Yes, please enroll us! 

I start the school year with a plan to listen to classical music at lunch everyday… and we do for the first couple of weeks. But then, as other subjects require a little more attention here and there, I put music off because it’s “less important” than math or science. And I stop planning for it. This seems like something I can actually do each day with no effort on my part Thank you!”

~Jeanna

“This is such a rich, thoughtful, and creative use of technology!”

~Diana

“I wanted to thank you for the classical music Sound Bites. It’s so nice, my 9-year-old daughter Autumn asks to listen to them on her own. It’s so exciting to see her get interested in music. It is something she looks forward to. Thank you again for this!”

~Roxann

“I LOVE that we can just ‘listen to school’ purposely or as background. We are already having some great discussions about the music and the emotions and images it evokes. Thank you for making it all the easier to do this.”

~Claudia

“Thank you so much for all your work to provide useful, flexible resources!”

~Wendy

“I must tell you that I love your diversity of performers that you use for your sound bites. Truly love seeing so many different ethnicities enjoying and participating in classical music.”

~Robin

“Sound bites is perfect! I turned it on while everyone was doing math. We immediately agreed that “Summer” did not sound like summer to us, which led to a need to listen to every other season and see if we found them, in our opinion, to be a better representation of the actual season. We listened to 40 minutes of music, all while doing math, with interesting discussion/evaluation happening while we listened. We are in love!

Thank you for making something that is so easy and that works!”

-Andrea

“I am REALLY enjoying this opportunity for ‘a change of pace’ in our day. It is enriching my life as well as the kiddos! Thank you so much!”

~Dorothy

“This is awesome! You are amazing! You literally are taking all of the work out of this for us. I can’t wait to use Sounds Bites. 

Thank you so much!”

~Becky

“When I told my 14-year-old boy that people in Beethoven’s time didn’t 

appreciate it, he said, “Why not?!? It’s cool.”

Thank you for this again. It has been a blessing to our family.”

-Heather

My son is three and is autistic- he loves anything with music, the cartoon/classical mashups have been really entertaining for him! Thank you for putting this together and sharing it with us!

~Skye

We had so much fun with day one of sound bites! I have to tell you that Vivaldi Four Seasons has always been one of my favorites compositions and when you sent that as day one I was thrilled. Then, I watched the amazing youtube clip with the kids while we were eating breakfast…and I have to tell you that while I have listened to this piece of music at least a hundred times…I never took the time to watch it being played live at the same time.

It was So. Much. Fun to watch and so incredibly beautifully done it literally brought tears to my eyes. My daughter asked if we could watch Autumn next! And of course we did. 

Today I had to play [Sound Bites] in the background while we were doing math and it was also so lovely and relaxing that math went much better than usual. 

Thank you….thank you. 

And God Bless,

~ Regina 

We are so appreciative of the daily Sound Bites! We miss them some days but its been a fantastic way for me to introduce regular doses of such intoxicating music to our days. And it calms (or enthralls) my 4 kids during those crazy (or dull) moments in life :). You are truly enriching our lives with all of your resources….

~Bonny

“I thought you’d like to hear this… we listened to the cartoon sound bite for today–barber of seville. 

My daughter (12) asked about seeing the real thing (they LOVE the cartoon) but she got curious about the real opera. So I found a version on Youtube….. and about 45 minutes into it, I moved it onto the tv for larger viewing, because all 6 of the kids were watching it!!!

Thank you!! Watching an Opera! All in Italian!!! and they were figuring out the plot and trying to get it!!!

We took a break to go outside but will finish watching it!!! Thanks for spurring us on!”

~Sarah

“Sound Bites is our breakfast activity each morning and my 2 and 3 year olds are LOVING it! Some days they want to see the videos, some days they ask to see it played on the TV (I usually just set my phone on an easel to play), and some days they ask for it to play through our diffuser’s speaker. They’ve asked me to pause it until they’ve finished eating so they can dance, they’ve wiggled in their seats, they’ve compared it to other versions they’ve heard (especially if it was featured on Little Einsteins). I signed up, originally, not expecting a lot of interaction from them. Mostly just wanted to get an idea of the program before implementing more structure in our homeschooling in the coming years. However, regularly they tell me what instruments they see, discuss how pieces make them feel, discuss different features of the piece (even using technical terms-crescendo, allegro, etc). They even tell their father about pieces that really speak to them at night during supper, so much so that he has me forward him the videos at work so he can watch before he gets home so he can join the discussions!

To sum this novella up, thank you for this program! It has added such richness and depth to our homeschool and has taught me to never underestimate my children!

~Tracy

“It is so perfect for high school, I just play it in the morning as we are getting ready. Sometimes I talk about the piece, sometimes not.”

~Audra

“I printed off some pages to use for my high schooler so we can start counting this time for credit, and your check box chart makes it easy to see how much we’re getting done. I have been using the sound bites in the morning when he writes in his journal. Thanks so much for making incorporating classical music into our homeschool day so easy!”

~Annette

 I know I mentioned how much we are enjoying Sound Bites, but I forgot to mention that we not only enjoy the music, but the imagery for most of the selections has been MAGNIFICENT. Not only has Sound Bites been an auditory joy, but visually as well. What more could a home school classroom ask for??? So once again, thank you for making art, music and history SO easy to enjoy and incorporate into our daily routine.

Sincerely,

Claudia

“We LOVE our Sound Bites, and after 25 years of buying various homeschool stuff and wasting (regretfully) more money than I should have, this…. is one option I feel has been worth every single penny and I don’t want to miss a single day.”

~Regina