Music, Lots of Music

Su-fei told Grace she’d downloaded some children’s music for Bryan and that she’d burn some CDs for him the next time she came over. Cool, I thought. She probably got a couple dozen children’s songs or something.

This morning I woke up to a piece of music by Mozart (kinda like Eddie Murphy at the beginning of his 1998 movie, “Coming to America“). Sweet! Then I discoverd a freakin Hello Kitty packet full of discs with tons of children’s music, each one with printed labels of the disc title and name of the songs. What the….

Grace said Su-fei had gone through the trouble of making each disc. That’s a total of 140 songs. Wow! Thanks, Su-fei.

Now I am re-importing everything back into iTunes so that we can put them on iPod for centralisation purposes. It’s also a good thing that my car stereo is MP3-ready so that I can just put everything on one disc for Bryan.

Some researchers claim (here, here and here) that classical music can help babies become healthier and smarter. It may or may not be true. But this is one of those wishful thinkings where you don’t want to risk the opposite. Kalpana (sorry, no picture yet) said that when her daughter Kishoree was born, she listened to classical music a lot. At age of six now (as of August 25th), Kishoree is among the smartest six-year-olds I know (it’s not like I know many). I am sure parent’s influence in education and discipline (besides just the music) probably has a lot more to do with her intelligence and being so articulate with language and manners. But it’s been said that the music stimulates infant’s brain to start getting those billions of neurons (3x the number of adults) to work their ass off.

Good stuff. Thanks to Su-fei again. And let’s not forget to thank those great dead Austrian musicians. And just by association of nationality, thanks to you too, Birgit.

前幾天舒菲告訴葛瑞絲說他下載了一些兒歌要給詠熙聽。本來以為大概就幾首像 “小蜜蜂“ 之類的東西, 結果想不到她燒十片的 CD, 而且每一片還有加印歌曲名稱和順序… 這時候我只能說一句廣東話: “ho sai lei ah!”

人家說給嬰兒多聽音樂 (尤其是古典歐洲音樂) 可以刺激腦部發展, 促進腦部發育… 也不知道是真是假, 反正就給他聽了就是了。