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Music Together Vivo! classes are great fun for young children ages birth to kindergarten...and classes are fun for their grown-ups, too! We sing, make silly sounds, move, dance with scarves, play instruments, and experience music in a million different ways. By communicating and expressing our human experience with each other through music, we become a joyful music-making community.
 Each week, we join together to foster music growth through playful, fun-loving and yet fully researched, developmentall y appropriate music activities. Children and their grown-ups leave class energized and ready to sing all week long—at home, in the car, in the grocery store, and on the playground! In order to foster music learning throughout the week, enrolled families receive CDs and a songbook with the session’s songs and activities to use at home. This session we are using the "STICKS" curriculum, which includes songs in a wide variety of tonalities, meters, and styles. Your child will love this music... and so will YOU!
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Instructor
Teacher Elnathan Starnes came to Music Together Vivo after leading the life of a working guitarist and songwriter for thirteen years. After attending Howard University majoring in jazz studies, he performed with several Washington DC-based groups for seven years.
In late 1997, he founded the alternative soul band, Oktbrwrld (Octoberworld). Oktbrwrld performed throughout the southern east coast, and won the Washington Area Music Award (Wammie) for Best Contemporary R&B group three years in a row. Oktbrwrld made four CDs, and performed at The Carter Barron Amphitheatre, Kennedy Center, MCI Center, and a Fundraiser for Bill Clinton in 2003 (aired on CNN).
Elnathan has also written a film score and co-wrote the film short, “The Water Story", which aired on BET in early 1998. He is also featured on guitar on Kwelismith’s CD entitled, “Secret Meeting: Kwanzaa Songs and City Sounds”.
Elnathan completed his training at the Music Together Teacher Training Workshop in 2006. In addition to teaching Music Together, Elnathan performs in the DC/MD/VA area as Groovy Mr. Nate, singing original and traditional children’s songs, as well as using puppets, playing guitar, and other instruments. Elnathan lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and two young children.
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