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Time to Sing!™ at Christmas and Time to Sing!™ II Team
Center for Creative Play - Executive Producers
Center for Creative Play (CFCP) is a fully inclusive, universally accessible family play facility located in Pittsburgh, PA. Our mission is to provide a warm and welcoming environment where children of all abilities and families with diverse backgrounds are able to Play, Learn and Grow Together. CFCP is very proud to offer the Time to Sing!™ series. Since its launch in 2000, Time to Sing!™ has heard from thousands of people who have shared their enthusiasm and success stories about Time to Sing!™ CFCP was founded on the dreams of parents... so too was Time to Sing!™
Website: http://www.centerforcreativeplay.org
Blue Vision Music - Production Company
Blue Vision Music is owned and operated by the husband and wife team of Georgean Johnson-Coffey and James Coffey. While Jim is an award-winning children's songwriter, recording artist & performer, Georgean has spent many years working in management positions with nonprofit organizations and now masterfully handles the PR, marketing and customer service. They just don't stop at producing music for your project. Blue Vision Music is a full multi-media company. They can help develop your CD packaging, produce videos and DVDs, as well as get your music noticed by designing the most interactive exciting website on the internet. The sky ISN'T the limit at Blue Vision...it's just the beginning!
Website: www.bluevisionmusic.com or www.childrensmusicresource.com
Lisa Robins - Design Firm
The package design and brand identity for the "Time to Sing!" series was created by Lisa Robins Design. Lisa Robins, an award winning art director and designer, has worked on many prestigious campaigns for the entertainment industry for over fifteen years. She shares a deep passion for children's issues and was thrilled to have her design firm create a new look for the "Time to Sing!" series, an amazing product she believes children will benefit from and enjoy immensely.
Email: studio@lisarobins.com
Time to Sing!™ Team
Center for Creative Play (see above)
Robert Moir and Dr. Mary Strum - Executive Producers and the parents behind "Time to Sing!"
The songs on this recording have all been newly arranged. The words are much slower than the originals, but the music is fun, exciting, playful, and beautiful. In fact, most kids won't even notice that the words are slower. The speed of each song was set by the eminent speech-language pathologist, David Hammer, who also edited some of the lyrics to eliminate difficult sound combinations and enable all children to sing along. The songs were all brilliantly arranged by composer Michael Moricz, former Music Director of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and are fun and rewarding for kids and their parents, too! They cover a wide variety of styles and settings, featuring thirteen singers, musicians for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Benedum Orchestra, and fifteen young children. We hope your children enjoy these fresh new looks at classic songs, now that they have time...to sing!
Robert Moir, Artistic Administrator, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,
Dr. Mary Strum, Shadyside Hospital
Michael Moricz - Producer
Music for Time to Sing!™ was arranged, programmed, conducted and produced by Michael Moricz who at the time was the Resident Composer and Associate Conductor with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre; ballets include The Great Gatsby, Amazing Grace, Hunter's Moon and The Mighty Casey. Michael also wrote Television scores for the Disney, Fox, Showtime, Discovery and PBS networks, and was music director for "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" on PBS. He has conducted the Buffalo Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, the Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestras and the Kennedy Center Orchestra at Wolf Trap
David Hammer, Speech-Language Pathologist for "Time To Sing!":
During my twenty-plus years as a pediatric speech-language pathologist, I have used music as a therapy "tool" to facilitate speech and language expansion. My frustration has always been that previously recorded songs for children are sung at a rate of speed that is often to fast for our many young children who are still learning to speak. Therefore, the speed of the words on this recording is intended to enable all children to sing along, regardless of their level of speech development. We hope that you find "Time To Sing!™" to be enjoyable, entertaining, and excitingly useful.
Dave Hammer, M.A. CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
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