In a sense, all of the RDO collections are for children. This one is just most obviously for young listeners.

http://www.ryandorin.com/rdo_children.html

The first track is a rarity. In fact, this might be the first available get together of the RDO. The music was composed as a piano piece when I was seventeen years old, and later orchestrated on synthesizers and recorded when I was in college. I had to rip it off an old cassette tape.

The second track, “Nursery Rhyme”, is one of the most popular RDO song of all time. Kids of all ages fall asleep to this one. It is designed to be played as a loop. You should really listen to it at least three times in a row for the full effect.

“Atonal Lullaby” is a corruption of the famous Brahms Lullaby. I created this while teaching a twentieth-century music theory course at NYU. Again, perhaps inspired by Charles Ives.