As a composer, Fred Rogers especially enjoyed introducing his viewers to world-class musicians. On this program, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis shows children that music can be a helpful way to express all kinds of feelings.
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Music brightens any celebration, and today there’s much to celebrate – and much music. At Negri’s Music Shop viewers get to know world-famous trumpeter Wynton Marsalis who joins in a toe-tapping jam session with Joe Negri on guitar and the Neighborhood trio led by John Costa. It’s nighttime in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and the neighbors are using a telescope to look for King Friday’s comet. But Henrietta’s sad because she was hoping for a birthday celebration and thinks her friends have forgotten.
Parenting tip: Help your child make a trumpet from an empty paper towel tube. Can your child hum into the trumpet, making make a happy sound, an angry sound, a sad sound or a silly sound?
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