SIDE 1

The Pianists (from ’’Carnival of the Animals”)

( Saint-Saens ) (2:02)

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach) (2:5i)

Kaleidoscope of Folk Tunes (4:38):

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

Ach du lieber Augustine

Chopsticks

Frere Jacques

History of the Waltz <8:i9):

Waltz in C (Schubert)

Waltz in C-Sharp Minor (Chopin)

Waltz in E (Brahms)

Straussiana (Medley of J. Strauss, Jr.)

SIDE 2

Laideronette (from "Mother Goose Suite”)

( Ravel) (3:46)

Children’s Games (Bizet) (4:os):

The Drummer and the Bugler

Soap Bubbles

Pieces Faciles (Stravinsky) (6:34):

March • Waltz • Galop

Gymnopedie No. 2 (Satie) (2:44)

Polka (from "Age of Gold” Ballet)

(Shostakovich) (2:43)

Parents who deplore their youngsters’

lack of music appreciation or indifference to

the classics will welcome this Whittemore

and Lowe '’primer” album created to meet

the need for a first-step introduction to great

music—an informative first step that is

completely understandable, interesting and

inviting to growing boys and girls.

Because it isn’t easy for most youngsters

to plunge appreciatively into the classics

without some preparation, this album not

only highlights highly melodic themes of

great composers, but it also explains them.

It makes an educational game of great

music .by keying young listeners to the

beauty and simplicity of certain pas-

sages, to the modernism and intricacy of

others. It explains the meaning of the galop

and other music forms, illustrates the dif-

ference between a waltz by Chopin and

the Viennese variety associated with Strauss.

This is fun education in music and word—

an introductory teaser to future apprecia-

tion and understanding of great music.

Whittemore and Lowe play a wide va-

riety of great and familiar selections to

emphasize not only the characteristic styles

and forms of the master composers, but the

tremendous variety of great music as well.

The classical composers are well repre-

sented—Ravel, Bizet, Stravinsky, Shosta-

kovich, Satie, Bach, Brahms, Chopin,

Saint-Saens, Schubert and Strauss. The

selections have been expertly culled and

arranged to avoid overpowering the un-

initiated.

Emphasizing the informality of this intro-

duction to the classics, Whittemore and

Lowe become "Buck” and "Jack” to their

youthful listeners when they double as

commentators. They maintain constant

communication with their audience, taking

the mystery out of the classics through ex-

planation and illustration.

The outstanding success of their intro-

ductory "Major Classics for Minors”

album (CAL-1016) underscores the need

and popularity of their formula for ac-

quainting young ears with the familiar

music of the great composers.