Class Descriptions

Infant - 4 Years    Tuesdays 4:00-4:45 PM
Participate with your child for 45 minutes each week in singing, chanting, moving, dancing, listening and playing simple instruments.  A 13 week winter semester is beginning on September 16, 2025

Musical play activities: 
– Help develop a strong musical bond with your child and closer family ties.
– Bridge the natural connection between music and movement.
– Enhance your child’s musical aptitude andSta listening abilities.
– Lay the foundation for singing and vocal development, listening skills, and purposeful movement.
- Continue the important work on "beat" within your child. 

Features:
– Movement activities for coordination, body awareness, exploration of space, body control and the pure joys of movement.
– Folk songs for singing, dancing and listening.
– Focused listening examples from both daily life and music intruments.
– Instruments to explore: rhythm sticks, jingles, rattles, drums, and resonator bars.
– 4 wonderful semesters, each with a 60 minute CD, a colorful parent activity book to use at home.
Start Date: September 8, 2026

Mondays, 4:00-5:00 PM
Parents and siblings are invited to participate in the last 15 minutes of classe.  
This first of sequential offerings in Music Makers.  MM Home is the first, MM World is the second and then starts MM at the Keyboard. Students must be in at least 1st grade to start MM at the Keyboard.  Enjoy songs and stories of Our Home Place, and also the homes of inhabitants of the Woodlands, Meadows and Marshes. This is the first of a 2-year course leading to true music literacy - an excellent foundation for any musical instruction. This course includes singing, creative and structured movement, ensemble playing, focused listening and ear training, movement games, introduction to music reading and writing, dancing, storytelling, musical exploration, and improvisation. Much emphasis is put on patterns, both melodic and rhythmic, using solfeggio and the Gordon rhythmic language. 
Materials include a CD (or digital download), a poster, song pages, and notation games. Children will receive 2 packets each semester.  The recorded music is essential to the class.

 

This music class application will be focusing on piano skills, one-on-one, with Rita Burghart.  Registration is through Gull Lake Virtual Partnership - contact Nancy Brown. Scheduling will be through Rita - 269.753.5044 - text or phone.  This application is in-person either at the Bedford location or the Burghart Music Studio in Marshall. Rita will be on-site in Bedford on Wednesdays and in Marshall on Mondays and Tuesdays in the fall of 2026.