Doctor Noize

The Links...

Fantastic Family Musician Friends…

• Roger Day… based in Tennessee
• Zak Morgan… based in Southern California
• Steve Weeks… based in Colorado
• Yosi… based in New Jersey
• Andy Z… based in Northern California

Going Out To Great Music Performances…

• Colorado Symphony Orchestra… gives family concerts in various venues that the Noize family loves to attend.
• San Francisco Symphony Kids… has fantastic interactive activities for kids and upcoming family concert listings.
• GoCityKids… has family music listings for many metros. Take yer kids to a wide range of genres. Open yer mind and theirs.
• Youth group performances — like the choir Doctor Noize used to conduct — inspire audience kids to wanna make music.
• Baby Loves Disco… is a hilarious concept whose time has clearly arrived. Babies. Disco. What’s not to love?

Bringing Great Music Performances Home…

• Bobby McFerrin & Friends — Swingin’ Bach… is an amazing DVD spanning many musical genres by great musicians.
• Mahler’s 9th Symphony… is a DVD of a fantastic youth orchestra playing one of Doctor Noize’s favorite composers.
• The Nutcracker… is a DVD of the classic ballet. And if you can find it, get this Peter & The Wolf with great youth dancers.
• The Fantasia Films… inspire kids to actively listen to fine art music and ask: “What’s happening in the music right now?”
• Watch rock, jazz, world, family and crossover music DVD’s with your kids. Buy ‘em, Netflix ‘em or get ‘em at the library.

Actively Listen…

You don’t need to watch anything to enjoy great music. Share your music with your kids. Don’t always just put it on in the background — sit down and really listen with your kids, or get up and dance with ‘em, and tell them why you love the music.

Then go on adventures together to expand your musical horizons. You don’t need a Ph.D. or senior citizens’ card to love fine art music. You just need an open mind and a sense of adventure.

The Noize family listens to pop/rock music from the Beatles to the silliest pop trifles imaginable. We also listen to Beethoven, Haydn, Hawaiian music, folk, jazz, fusion, soundtracks, and everything in between.

You never know what your kids and their adventurous, open minds will love — the Noize kidz love the Star Wars soundtracks (they can identify each character’s theme even though they’ve never seen the movies), a new age CD from Spa Nordstrom (no kidding), and a folk CD by an indie band called Illari that plays in the street at Pier 39 in San Francisco.

Your kids will make your musical tastes more adventurous if you let ‘em.