Today's featured Doodle game: the theremin (an electronic instrument played without touching it) and the performer Clara Rockmore, who was not only a world-class theremin player but also helped develop it google.com/doodles/clara-… OBTPS Memorial School Old Bridge Preschool 2/2

Google reposting popular Doodle games, including this musical one based on German abstract artist Oskar Fischinger, who explored connections between music & images. Compare to Kandinsky on Music Lab. Fixed link: google.com/doodles/oskar-… OBTPS Memorial School Old Bridge Preschool 1/2

Good morning OBTPS Memorial School Memorial PTA! :-) A 3rd beautiful day in a row! New activities posted at quavermusic.com, check your Music Team for the lineup for your class!

Google, programmers, and accessibility advocates teamed up to make music creation tools which can be operated with mouse gestures and body motion tracked on webcam: experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/cre… Demo video for one of them: youtu.be/y9jeehB9mxk OBTPS Memorial School Old Bridge Preschool

Star Wars + Reggae = this cover of The Mandalorian theme by the Minneapolis ska band @PrizefightersMN youtu.be/NNpx_HYqQfs @Pachmandrums Dan Barnett

Join Dan Barnett & me for the OBTPS Memorial School Virtual Concert on Flipgrid! All styles & grades welcome! Info & Links on Teams or oldbridgeadmin.org/Page/14951 Memorial PTA

Good morning OBTPS Memorial School! New Quaver activities are up! Check your Team for the lineup for your class!

Hey OBTPS Memorial School, extra Quaver activity posted with the Star-Spangled Banner & America the Beautiful for Memorial Day! Also: 4th & 5th grade, Newsela article about performance of the Nat'l Anthem by WWII veteran. See video from 2019: youtube.com/watch?v=22UJMG…

Another cool #GoogleDoodle today! The mbira is the nat'l instrument of Zimbabwe, played with fingers & thumb. Follow the story & play the instrument! google.com/doodles/celebr… OBTPS Memorial School Old Bridge Preschool

Happy late Thursday / early Friday OBTPS Memorial School Old Bridge Preschool! Check out dotpiano.com, use your computer keyboard to play/record/listen to melodies. Check Teams/my website oldbridgeadmin.org/Page/14850 for a bit more about how to play it

"It would be a marvelous thing if speakers all over our nation could talk about this problem in terms of a problem that once existed but that no longer has existence." 54 years ago. smu.edu/News/2014/mlk-… Make the long, long way shorter. Be excellent to each other.

A luthier is a string instrument maker. Here's a master at work youtu.be/iphJwCNbNSI Dominique Nicosia from Mirecourt, France. Luthiers have been making instruments in Mirecourt for 400yrs!

I've been listening to a lot of Christopher Tin this week, and you should too. This is a live performance of his song cycle Calling All Dawns: youtube.com/watch?v=m2jzfV… Language changes in each piece of the cycle

Welcome to Memorial School's Virtual Open House 💛🐾💙 Memorial PTA flipgrid.com/776fe17f

Music Activities for this week! Also on Teams and at obps.sharepoint.com/sites/muccimus… youtube.com/watch?v=0G6aup…

OB parents & students can find selected music activities each week at my district website obps.sharepoint.com/sites/muccimus… - log in w/ your OBPS account! New content posted every Tuesday or earlier. Memorial PTA Madison Park PTA OBTPS Memorial School

Weekly "take-home" activities from Music Class posted every Tuesday for each week! Use your OBPS login obps.sharepoint.com/sites/muccimus… Memorial PTA Madison Park PTA OBTPS Memorial School