Title : Beethoven's Wig: Sing Along Symphonies
Author : Richard Perlmutter
Release Date : 20020305
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $12.98
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Editorial Reviews : Inspired and wildly imaginative, Beethoven's Wig is one of the best introductions to classical music you could give to your children. Featuring snippets of 11 classical music staples--Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, et al.--the disc and its creators, Richard Perlmutter and friends, pour on the silly lyrics the first time around to familiarize young ears to the old masters. Then in the last half of the record, the orchestra plays the same 'serious' music pieces instrumentally. You might cheerfully recall Alan Sherman's popular spoofs of old classical works in Wig; pieces like 'Drip, Drip, Drip,' which adapts Delibes's 'Pizzicato from Sylvia,' and if so, you'll again chuckle. You'll also marvel at the expertise throughout the CD, with all the pieces well played and thoroughly fun. Beethoven's Wig is an orchestral treasure with a sense of humor as old or as new as its listeners (and the fun questions that run throughout the CD's liner notes are almost as entertaining as the zany musical interludes). Highly recommended.
Buyer Reviews : 'Beethoven's Wig' is a collection of funny lyrics added to famous classical pieces. For example, 'Beethoven's Wig/Is Very Big...' is sung to the tune of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. Lyrics that Mom & Dad sung in the playground way back when ('Can can can you do the can can, if you can then I can...') are sung to Offenbach. My kids think it's hysterical and love singing along.
The eleven parody songs are then followed by eleven original versions, so the album will even educate the kids about the 'real' classics. On our home computer CD we have set up a playlist that re-arranges the album so that each parody is followed by its original, so the kids can see the similarities.
Both my 3- and 8-year-old love it, and it doesn't drive the adults crazy, either (always a plus).
