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Post by indigoblue on Sept 3, 2013 23:26:47 GMT
Imagine my pleasure in hearing my sweet 9yr old son singing 'My Favourite Things' to himself whilst playing, followed by 'Do Re Mi'!
This is without (to my knowledge) TSOM having been played in this house for over a year, and he himself can only have seen it four times in his little life at the most.
What is it about the songs that they are so memorable? Is it that the film has such a big feelgood factor that the music brings it all back? Or are they just very catchy?
Any suggestions~?
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Post by augiesannie on Sept 3, 2013 23:51:36 GMT
Wait. Not for a year?
If you were not, like, in another country, I'd have you seated in front of my television in NO TIME!
The question is, what did you sing to him to get him to go to sleep when he was a baby? I sang the Beatles "I Will", and "'Til There was You" to my children and they still love those songs. Maybe that explains it.
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Post by lemacd on Sept 4, 2013 0:15:09 GMT
my eldest has this uncanny ability to hear a song once and suddenly starting humming the tune in its entirety months or even a year later. when he was about 7 months he "sang" a song i used to sing to him all the time while i pushed him around the supermarket and i had to just stop and listen until he finished. it blew my mind. my youngest isn't a singer but since there was a lot of mommy/michael time while big bro was in school, i made him watch TSOM with me a couple time (he calls it the maria movie) and since then i've caught him singing "when the dog bites" part of 'my favorite things'. makes me so giddy.
when i note their table manners, i think of my future daughter in laws and think "oh, i'm so sorry."
then i make them watch TSOM and think "you're very welcome." but mostly i'm apologizing.
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Post by augiesannie on Sept 4, 2013 0:26:01 GMT
give that boy music lessons. and do you want a daughter in law who stresses over table manners?
the gap year program my son just left on brags famously about the number of matches that result - not immediately, you know, but eventually, based on friendships formed during the gap year. So I was scanning the crowd quite intensely at the airport.
Wait, sorry this is not a TSOM post! But I did hear a couple of wedding bells pealing madly.
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Post by lemacd on Sept 4, 2013 2:33:08 GMT
maybe not stress over table manners. but bring out the best in my little men, which i hope to high heaven means recalling the countless pleas to sit down, stop burping and for the love of pete, close the mouth! no one wants to see that! sorry, girls.
sigh. yeah, off topic. now back to your regularly scheduled forum.
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Post by indigoblue on Sept 4, 2013 23:40:14 GMT
Favourite Things is about situations everyone can relate to, and kids in particular will be reassured by the lyrics, so I think in a way it is a comforting thing to sing to oneself, playing Lego...
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Post by augiesannie on Sept 5, 2013 2:30:56 GMT
well, and now that you mention it, worries about "dogs biting" and "bees stinging" would be things that children would find quite frightening, whereas I -- while I don't like those things especially -- have experienced much worse.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2014 14:45:06 GMT
Happy Birthday to Oscar Hammerstein! I know that beautiful music fills the air wherever he is on what would have been his 119th birthday!
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Post by UnusualCliche on Jul 13, 2014 1:55:52 GMT
Oh I didn't know it was his birthday.  Their music was quite magical. I wish the songs were dubbed here in brazil so I could show TSOM to my three year old. I tried once and he was enjoying himself for a bit but he got restless after a while because he didn't understand the lyrics... |
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Post by indigoblue on Jan 18, 2016 0:27:36 GMT
 Does this have something to do with the success of the music from TSOM?!
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Post by indigoblue on Dec 4, 2021 0:28:44 GMT
I was reading the playwright Stephen Sondheim's obituary today, and he learnt a lot about musicals from Oscar Hammerstein, who was a neighbour when he was a teenager. Later in life, he described Oscar as being 'limited in talent, infinite in soul', whereas he describes Richard Rogers as 'infinite in talent, limited in soul'.
Any thoughts?!
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Post by augiesannie on Dec 5, 2021 19:19:26 GMT
I was reading the playwright Stephen Sondheim's obituary today, and he learnt a lot about musicals from Oscar Hammerstein, who was a neighbour when he was a teenager. Later in life, he described Oscar as being 'limited in talent, infinite in soul', whereas he describes Richard Rogers as 'infinite in talent, limited in soul'. Any thoughts?! I don't feel very qualified to judge talents in either case, but from what little I've read (I read this book), the part about soul sounds right to me. |
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Post by indigoblue on Dec 5, 2021 21:38:15 GMT
That book got wonderful reviews, augiesannie ! Looks like I'll be along to read it... |
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