An old favorite song can bring back all kinds of memories, especially when it’s one you’ve sung and played with your child. That’s one of the best things about revisiting a familiar Music Together® song collection!
Each session of Music Together features a different collection of 25 songs, with nine core collections rotating over a three-year cycle. When a collection comes around again, the songs may be familiar, but your child’s experience is brand new.
Just ask New Jersey mom Delia Biondi-Wong, whose family attended Music Together classes from 2017 to 2025. With two children five-and-a-half years apart, Delia experienced each of the core song collections three times over a decade—and found something new to enjoy each time.
Hello again, old favorites
For Delia’s youngest daughter, A, opening a familiar Music Together songbook was something to celebrate.
“We would look through the book together and we’d say, ‘Oh, we remember this song!’” She continues, “Singing the songs in class became something to look forward to. We loved getting to hear those songs that she was familiar with.”
Delia had her own reasons for enjoying those familiar songs. With five-and-a-half years between her son, O, and daughter, A, returning to a favorite collection brought back memories of singing the same songs with O when he was little. Now she was creating new memories with A.
Same songs, different moments
Of course, children don’t experience a song the same way at three months old as they do at three or five years old. A baby who once watched and listened might now be a toddler singing, dancing, and joining in. And a preschooler who was once that toddler might be leading the younger children or suggesting new lyrics (even when the teacher hasn’t asked for them!).
A was just three months old when she started Music Together. In those early classes, she watched and listened to the older children. As she grew, she found new ways to participate, eventually becoming one of the older children herself. By her final semester at age five, A “loved being the little mommy” in class.
For Delia, watching those changes was part of the experience. She enjoyed seeing both children develop a “deep connection to the music” over the years.
The classes also meant 45 minutes each week to focus on her children, without the usual distractions of daily life. Even as they grew older and other activities became something Delia watched from the sidelines, Music Together remained something they could do as a family.
The music goes with them
Although both children have now moved on from Music Together classes, music continues to be a big part of their lives.
O has always been musical, and Delia feels that the “work we did in Music Together in his early years helped shape his musicality into what it is today.”
He’s taken that love of music to the stage, appearing in a professional production of A Christmas Story at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre, where he sang two prominent duets. In Summer 2026, he was also cast as Charlie Bucket in an international tour of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
A, meanwhile, is more of a “tumbling type kid,” but she’s always ready for a spontaneous family dance party. She’s also helped create the family’s playlist, filled with music from all kinds of genres that they listen to at bedtime, in the morning, and on car rides.
Delia credits the variety of music her children experienced in Music Together with helping shape the whole family’s appreciation for different kinds of music.
A song worth coming back to
For Delia’s family, coming back to familiar songs meant discovering new ways to enjoy them, watching her children grow, and making memories along the way. The songs may have come around again, but each time, there was something new to experience.
Curious about how children build on their early music experiences? Read Filling the Musical Chest of Drawers to explore how young children develop musical memories and build a repertoire of songs they can draw on throughout their lives.