Magic House exhibit lets kids get into jazz

Throughout jazz history, musicians and composers have made references to magic and sorcery in song and album titles. For example, Grover Washington is known for his signature song "Mr Magic," Chick Corea once recorded an album called Musicmagic, and Miles Davis titled one of his classic Sixties records The Sorcerer after a Wayne Shorter composition. There are plenty more, but you get the idea.

With that in mind, it seems only fitting that the Magic House, the children's museum in Kirkwood, is featuring jazz as a part of a music exhibit running this summer. According to this story in the Post by Diane Toroian Keaggy, "Making America's Music: Rhythm, Roots & Rhyme," a traveling exhibit exploring jazz, country, rock and rap, features a kid sized "jazz club," a disco "where kids dress in different costumes to do the hustle, the twist and the conga," and "a virtual symphony hall where pint-size conductors can lead the Boston Pops." There are also custom-made instruments that kids can play, recorded interviews with musicians such as Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr to watch, and more. The exhibit runs through September 18.

(Edited after posting to fix some typos.)