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Not sure I'm qualified to review an album of children's music, not
that a lack of qualification has slowed me down much in the past. But
there's a real question here: do I try to put myself in the place of an
impressionable and unsophisticated child, which I once was and, if you
leave out the "child" part may still be; or do I listen with the more
experienced ear of an adult and consider what Ms. Mitchell, Ms. Loeb and their
collaborators have done with a mix of children's classics, foreign
folk songs and a few originals? Luckily for me, the answer appears to
be the same in both cases. There's a cleverness, a subtlety and, yes,
a little bit of sexiness that will appeal to the grownup, all, I
suspect, without getting in the way of a kid's pleasure in simply
listening to the words and the tune.
On the other hand, this one
might be a score for the world of hard goods; the CD version includes
a book, where on the iTunes Store you don't even get a lousy PDF. Not
that I think an online book is any substitute for holding one in your
hands. Especially when you're first learning to appreciate the
written word. I say go for the hardcopy; there'll be plenty of time
to ruin your eyes on computer screens.
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