Each week, the students at Hillsdale listen to a new "Song of the week" at the beginning of each music class. The songs that are played are songs that I believe the children will come across again sometime in their lifetime. It could be a week from now or a year from now, but most of these songs I tell the students that they will probably hear again someday. The songs are from all walks of life and many different styles. They may hear these songs in TV commercials, shows, movies, ipods, museums, weddings, stores, etc.

The goal of "Song of the week" is to expose kids to music in the real world, to teach them what it is called and who wrote it, to have them learn a fact or two about the song or composer, and most importantly... to learn to LISTEN and focus on the music and nothing else.

Some of the questions I ask the children are... Have you heard this before? Where? What kind of instruments did you hear? Can you guess the style of music? and many more. So here it is... the song of the week for the 2007-2008 school year

2. Week of Sept 15-19... "The Flight of the Bumbebee" by N. Rimsky-Korsakov

3. Week of Sept 22-26... "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" by W.A. Mozart

4. Week of Sept 29-Oct 3... no song

5. Week of Oct. 6 - 10... A medley of John Williams movie songs

6. Week of Oct. 13 - 17... "Unforgettable" as sung by Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole

7. Week of Oct. 20 - 24... "Toccata and Fugue" by Johann Sebastian Bach

8. Week of Oct. 27 - 31..."Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens

9. Week of Nov. 3-7... "Fur Elise" by L. Van Beethoven

10. Week of Nov. 10-14... "Over the Rainbow" as performed by Israel Kamakavivo'ole

11. Week of Nov. 17-21... "Symphony No. 5" by L. Van Beethoven

12. Week of Nov. 24-28.. no song

13. Week of Dec. 1-5... "March" from The Nutcracker by Peter Tchiakovsky

14. Week of Jan 5-9... "Auld Lang Syne", traditional New Years Song.

15. Week of Jan 26-30... "Hail to the Chief", Presidential theme song.

16. Week of Feb. 16-20... "Lullaby" by J. Brahms

17. Week of Feb. 23-27... "Blue Suede Shoes" by Carl Perkins, performed by Elvis Presley

18. Week of April 13-17... "Celito Lindo" (Mexican Folk Song"

19. Week of May 4-8... "Canon in D" by J. Pachelbel