How to teach kids classical music

Xeni Jardin 8:38 am Wed Oct 24, 2012

For this week's CDZA musical experiment video, Joe Sabia and the Collective Cadenza musicians teamed up with children to explore one way to "teach the classics to students today"—have them sing their favorite contemporary pop music lyrics to the tune of classical compositions. In this video, young Alyssa Lower and Aiden Medina perform:

Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik meets LMFAO's Party Rock

Offenbach's "Can Can" meets Gaga's Bad Romance

Beethoven's Fur Elise meets Adel's Rolling in the Deep

Grieg's Peer Gynt Overture meets Carly Rae Jepson's Call Me Maybe

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony meets Katy Perry's "Wide Awake"

Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy meets One Direction's What Makes You Beautiful

Haydn's Surprise Symphony meets Justin Bieber's Baby

John William's Jurassic Park Theme meets Psy's Gangnam Style

Spoiler alert: it's pretty adorable.

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