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Music In The Air
songs for Barry Manilow and the Fifth
Dimension, tapped Lindsay, a friend
whose music was also performed by
the Fifth Dimension.
"We didn't want the music to be
exclusively for the under-5 age group,"
says Becker, who also is Jewish. "We
wanted children to grow up with our
music and experience it differently at
different ages.
"In concerts, we see that 2- and 3-
year-olds are jumping up and down,
not yet connected with the lyrics. The
4-, 5- and 6-year-olds begin to pick up
the humor and the subtleties."
While the men play guitars, Lindsay
changes from banjo to flute to oboe.
arachute Express starts each
performance as a family-
friendly trio — but its goal
is getting the audience
singing the group's original songs,
moving with the music and feeling
like an active part of the concert.
That's what will happen when
Parachute Express does two programs
Wednesday, Aug. 22, at Freedom Hill
Amphitheater in Sterling Heights.
Stephen Michael Schwartz, Donny
Becker and Janice Hubbard Lindsay
build on their 17 years of experience
entertaining together to engage
audiences and express the feelings
and sensitivities of children.
"We've written songs that are
simple but not simplistic," says
Schwartz, 48, whose father was a
cantor. "We have nine albums of
our music that we use to build and
change our shows, and our most
recent is Doctor Looneys Remedy."
The latest recording, made in
1999 with multicultural music and
an anthem of children's rights, has
won the INDIE (Association for
Independent Music) Award for
Best Children's Album, NAPPA
Parachute Express
Gold Award from the National
Association of Parenting Publications
of America and the Film Advisory
All three, who have entertained at the
Board Award for Excellence.
White House, also draw on experi-
"I think we're often the first link
ences they had parenting their own
children have to various musical styles,
children.
and I believe they experience the love
Parachute Express, with available
we have for each other because our
videos Come Sing With Us and Live in
sounds come out of our friendship
Concert, performs the title song for the
and love," Schwartz says.
animated television show Jay Jay the Jet
Parachute Express was formed in
Plane, seen at 12:30 p.m. weekdays on
1984 to create music for Gymboree,
WTVS (Channel 56).
an international enterprise that teaches
"Writing for kids and entertaining
movement and play techniques to par-
them keeps us feeling young," says
ents and their preschoolers at numer-
Schwartz, who enjoys meeting audi-
ous franchises, including Israeli off-
ence members after concerts. El
shoots. The trio's name derives from a
Gymboree activity — Parachute Music
Parachute Express performs 2
Time, when parents and children sit
and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22,
on a parachute as they sing.
at Freedom Hill Amphitheater in
Becker, who studied child develop-
Sterling Heights. $15. (810) 268-
ment at the University of California-
5100. For CDs, videos and more,
Santa Cruz, started the group by ask-
call (888) 445-4687, or go to
ing Schwartz, a neighbor, to help write
www.parachuteexpress.corn.
the music. Schwartz, who has written
po
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