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Music· — Aayan and Abhiram compose the “Anti-Littering Team,” where they do campaigns, conduct events with other children, and spread awareness about not littering and segregating waste. This is their first song...

Music· — First Flight Fern Hadley, 12 Why not try playing the music for yourself? You can download a PDF copy of all three pages here. The poem First Flight, based on this...

Editorial· — Free Alexandra Sheinkin, 12 I made an inspiring song called “Free,” working title “The Quarantine Song.” It is uplifting and optimistic. Watch and listen to Alexandra performing her song below....

Editorial· — I’m Fine Kathleen Werth, 10 I utilized Bandlab (an app with drum beats and mixing options) to put the layering of my song together and form music. You can listen...

Music· — Moonlight Waltz Micah Lim, 11 “Moonlight Waltz” is a new piece written for piano, saxophone, and drums. I was inspired to compose this when I started learning about jazz style....

Music· — Dancing Pirates By Vera Lim, 8 I wrote “Dancing Pirates” because I was inspired by my younger brother’s pirate birthday party. This piece is dedicated to him. You can download...

Music· — When it was a rainy day and I had nothing much to do, I was thinking about my dreams and this is what I created to sing. Listen in the...

Music· — I wrote this piece thinking of something that should flow as a river. I didn’t want the title to be “The River,” but rather something that was more creative and...

Music· — I have been playing saxophone since I moved to Los Angeles from the mountains of Colorado four years ago. This year, I wrote a piece for piano and submitted it...

Music· — I started to compose when I was about 9 years old and wrote about 5 pieces of music. Back then I had played the piano for about 5 years already. I...

Music· — “I like writing sad stuff, and one day I just sat at the piano and started fooling arond with some chords, and this came out. I just like badgers, hence...

Music· — Rik Bhattacharyya, who is twelve, in 2017 wrote this piano piece in response to some of the turmoil taking place in the world today. This is his thinking behind the...

Music· — This lovely song by Kathleen Werth, 8, is beautiful musical moment. There are big formal pieces of music but there are also in all of our lives the songs we...

Music· — This March was composed by Frederick Ouseley (1825-1889) when he was six years old. Frederick grew up to become a composer of church music. He started composing at the age of...

Music· — The entries for our February 2017 Music Contest, in which Stone Soup readers recorded their performances of Anna Steiger‘s childhood composition La Valse des Fleurs (Flower Walz), were so good...

Music· — This lovely piano piece is written by Julius Ugo, age 11. Julius lives in Toronto, Canada.

Music· — Frederick Ouseley (1825-1889) was a British musician and composer. He specialized in church music. He started writing music when he was three — his sister transcribed those first pieces. A...

Music· — This lovely piano piece is written by Julius Ugo, age 10. Julius lives in Toronto, Canada. This is what he says about the piece, “My video is about waking up...

Music· — Nathan Grabow, a young American composer and pianist performs his original composition entitled Concertino in G Minor for Piano and Strings. He wrote the piece when he was twelve years...

Music· — Joey Alexander (born Josiah Alexander Sila; June 25, 2003) is one of the world’s most recognized child composer/musicians. Born in Bali, Indonesia, he began playing jazz at the age of six....