Music
Back to School Sounds
Here’s how we’re waking up at our house to start the new school year — with the Brazilian singer Nazare Pereira singing “Bonjour Pra Voce” — a good morning song that goes well with corn flakes or scrambled eggs — from a joyful CD called World Playground from Putumayo World Music.
Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Bernsteins-Young-Peoples-Concerts.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/25/2000 Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts Transcript In 1958, the American composer and conductor, the late Leonard Bernstein, whose birthday it is today, gave the first two in a series of popular televised performances for young people about the nature of music. In many ways, […]
Dragonflies the Baby Cries
That’s the Alloy Orchestra from Cambridge, Massachussetts, providing the soundtrack for a new movie, “Dragonflies the Baby Cries,” a short, around ten minute, nearly silent film by Jane Gilooly about children and their magical, secret lives.
Kid Hoboes
That’s Woody Guthrie’s son, Arlo, singing his haunting “Hobo’s Lullaby” in honor of the National Hobo Convention, which takes place this week in Britt, Iowa.
Lulie the Iceberg
You’re hearing a small section from the first, mood-setting movement of the American composer Jeffrey Stock’s music for Lulie the Iceberg.
Music for Traveling
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Music-for-Travelling.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/21/2000 Music for Traveling Transcript It may be a really risky programming decision, and you may get hooted at by every in the car, but here’s your chance, on the next family road trip, to help correct the sad fact that our kids have […]
Woody Guthrie
That’s Woodrow Wilson Guthrie singing one of the songs he wrote for his young daughter, Cathy, in the 1940s.
Mary McLeod Bethune
That’s Donna Lynne Coulter, Medicine Man Ya Ya, and friends singing the opening for their tribute to the great American educator, Mary McLeod Bethune, whose birthday it is today.
America the Beautiful
That’s the Boston-based storyteller, Brother Blue, with a few notes of his version of one of America’s most moving national songs, a song that some have called the unofficial second national anthem.
Elvis for Babies
You’re hearing a little from one of Elvis Presley’s monumental hits, “Don’t Be Cruel,” on a recent CD for very young children called “Elvis for Babies.”