For the last 10 years, hundreds of Nevada County children have been listening to classical music — five minutes a day, five days a week. Following a five-year curriculum, students listen to the same selection for a week, each day hearing a little more about the music or its composer in a short scripted lesson. Children are introduced to 30 composers and 131 pieces of music representing the best of 400 years of classical music. They hear different moods, styles and combinations of instruments, and learn about composers’ purposes and creative process. Music in the Mountains has offered the Brummitt-Taylor …












