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“Music is forever;

music should grow and mature with you,

following you right on up until you die.” 

~Paul Simon

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Welcome to A Sharp Music Studios with La Rae Mills.

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A Sharp Music Studios does offer weekly classes for young childhood music and development using the award-winning Kindermusik Curriculum. You can click on the classes link to get the full schedule, class descriptions, prices and locations.

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Kindermusik® is an early childhood music and movement program based on the beliefs that:
1. Every child is musical
2. Every parent is the child’s most important teacher
3. The home is the most important place for learning to take root and grow
4. Based on research, music nurtures a child’s cognitive, emotional, social, language, and physical development.

Young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week through at least one full year are:

  • 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement
  • 3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools
  • 4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair
  • 3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance
  • 4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem

Young artists, as compared with their peers, are likely to:

  • Attend music, art and dance classes nearly three times as frequently
  • Participate in youth groups nearly four times as frequently
  • Read for pleasure nearly twice as often
  • Perform community service more than four times as often

According to Living the Arts through Language + Learning: A Report on Community-based Youth Organizations, Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University and Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching, Americans for the Arts Monograph, November 1998.

Music education helps other disciplines of learning.

Prior to a major spurt of neural integration in the brain during the elementary school years, learning occurs through movement and quick emotional associations. For example, by age two, the brain has begun to fuse with the body via marching, dancing and developing a sense of physical rhythm. The more music children are exposed to before they enter school, the more deeply this stage of neural coding will assist them throughout their lives. ~ According to Don Campbell, author of The Mozart Effect

Skills learned through music carry over into study skills, communications skills and cognitive skills useful to all parts of life. For example, research supports that music helps prepare the mind for specific disciplines of learning. One such study referenced in a 1997 article in Neurological Research indicated that music training is far superior to computer instruction in dramatically enhancing children’s abstract reasoning skills, the skills necessary for learning math and science.

Even our elected officials have realized the importance of music for our children. Recent federal law, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, states, “Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence traits that carry over into mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history and geography.”

The fact is that arts education…

Makes a tremendous impact on the developmental growth of every child and has proven to help level the “learning field” across socio-economic boundaries. ~ According to Involvement in the Arts and Success in Secondary School, James S. Catterall, The UCLA Imagination Project, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA, Americans for the Arts Monograph, January 1998.

Has a measurable impact on youth at risk in deterring delinquent behavior and truancy problems while also increasing overall academic performance among those youth engaged in after-school and summer arts programs targeted toward delinquency prevention. ~ According to YouthARTS Development Project, 1996, U.S. Department of Justice, National Endowment for the Arts, and Americans for the Arts.

That Kindermusik products have received several prominent national awards.

  • Tune In 2004 Award Winner, Distinguished Achievement for Excellence in Education Publishing
  • Parents’ Choice Fall 2001 Approved Winter Commendation
  • Parents’ Choice Spring 2001 Recommended Award
  • 2001 Directors’ Choice Award from Early Childhood NEWS

That children with special needs can participate in Kindermusik classes.

Children with mental and developmental problems such as autism have enjoyed the Kindermusik experience.

Children with physical disabilities, developmental delays and other disabilities make huge strides through their Kindermusik classes.