Music Education: Vegetable Soup?

These videos I’m sharing today put a whole new spin on teaching instruments and the orchestra; I believe you’ve got to somehow include this in your lesson plans!  Click here: Vegetable Orchestra

The above video I found on my MSN home page today;  I decided to do some research, and found links to the source: The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra.  For those of you who have your students make their own orchestra instruments, this is a trip!

Here is a sample of their concert work:

An innovative way of making music….as music teachers, finding a way to “serve up” the orchestra can be dry. Our responsibility is to motivate; this is a fine choice for teaching the instruments, and for an extension of teaching “found sound”.  Enjoy!