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Notes Alive: On the Day You Were Born | 
| Director: Joel J. Feigenbaum
Actors: Stephen Collins, Catherine Hicks, Beverley Mitchell, Mackenzie Rosman, Nikolas Brino
Studio: Blackboard
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 9403
Format: Color, Ntsc
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 30
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0965381862
UPC: 614417834563
EAN: 9780965381864
ASIN: 0965381862
Theatrical Release Date: December 29, 2004
Release Date: June 5, 2001
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Amazon.com
This creative video from the Minnesota Orchestra is a great way to introduce youngsters to symphony music. Author Debra Frasier reads her bestselling children's book that celebrates the world we live in, and her colorful drawings are changed into computer animation and scored to new music by Steve Heitzeg. The Aaron Copland-style symphony includes very curious instruments (goat hooves and seashells). The 30-minute program cuts back and forth between the computer animation and the symphony performance, and conductor Bill Eddins is a dynamic host when he introduces the concept of a "storyconcert" and takes a few minutes to interview the composer and author. This first tape in the Notes Alive series (which includes My Many Colored Days and Nutcracker: The Untold Story) is fun for audiences ages 2 and up, but 5- to 7-year-olds are at an especially great age to be introduced to such music. This is a unique, creative tape that won several awards, including the American Library Association's Carnegie Medal for Best Children's Video of 1997. --Doug Thomas
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| Customer Reviews:
And a Symphony Played To Celebrate the Triumph of life April 2, 2007
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I'm so pleased my "theme" in 1st grade is "the earth". With NCLB controls in my Underperforming school I've had some lousy mandated themes...no matter.No need to go there. This one is beautiful. So i found in my Whole Language materials this VHS. It is a symphonic presentation intepersed with reading the text of the book by same name.... Lovely true to the book's visuals, and the symphony stage sets make this a quiet lovely beautiful way to introduce the orchestra/symphony. Here, in my school in Oxnard CA not one child has ever seen a symphony. Can you imagine? I grew up with the gift of music in my daily life(okay sometimes I used a word besides gift)even of Suzuki violin as young as two...starting that many year run of community symphony playing well known to family as the "get her some tuning" years. I finally tuned. You finally do. I hope this helps build an awareness for them. Peter and the Wolf to follow. But honestly every young child, can be very young, should be exposed to this. If you are musical, play, it'll click. My daughters and son certainly grew up with this. After the story the author takes you to why she wrote this, her relationship to nature and Florida and how the book was written. That part was so cool as well as visiting with the composer to learn how he did his magic too.
On the day you were born our earth welcomed you, with her magical melody. The you we need, the you who can cradle the future and redeem all our sins. Welcome.
Amazing August 25, 2000
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
My third graders and I have just finished the Notes Alive video for On the Day you Were Born. We are all amazed. This was a superbly done video with excellent graphics and accompaniment. I can't begin to describe the looks on my students' faces as we watched the book come alive with such a brilliant video. I've attended one of Debra's workshops and was delighted to have an opportunity to share this adventure with my students. The book and tape are an excellent learning tool for any age student - preschoolers to adult! As a culminating activity, we are illustrating what we think the earth looked like on the day we were all born. Thank you Notes Alive and thank you Debra Frasier.
Refreshing . . . June 16, 2000
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I gave this video to my 3-year old niece and we watched it together, along with her sister, who is seven. What an enjoyable 30 minutes - the author reads the story and the book comes to life with the sounds of the symphony. The 3-year old became antsy toward the end, but the 7-year old was able to identify different instruments in the symphony (video clips of the symphony cut in to the story). This is a good "sleepy-time" or "before bed" video. Delightful and I got a thumbs up from the dad, my brother. Good rec ... for that age group! I would love to buy the book now!
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