The first musical instrument was most probably a flute, made from an animal bone. The oldest of these flutes is from 43,000 years ago. But music itself – chants, songs, incantations – is much, much older. Our stories look at music in its many forms, ancient and modern, and from many cultures.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Aida.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/2/2000 Aida Transcript Before Aida became a Disney musical on Broadway this spring, it was, of course, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi; and before it becomes a Disney cartoon (which shouldn’t be too far away), you might want to have your children hear the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/MP3s.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 5/5/2000 MP3s Transcript Here’s Koren Stembridge on the Internet. Last Wednesday evening, I got my first introduction to MP3s. Don’t worry, I’ll explain. By 7:45 p.m., the only patrons left in the building were three of my all-time favorite teenagers Sarah, Amanda, and Joe. […]
That rapped up version of the classic nursery rhyme is from a wonderful CD from Music for Little People called “Toddlers Sing”–something good to fill your house with during young people’s poetry week.
You’re hearing a little from one of the most recorded pieces of modern classical music, Ravel’s “Bolero”–though the French composer, who was born today in 1875, might be a little surprised to hear it played on a toy piano.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/African-Lullabies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/15/2000 African Lullaby Transcript In the liner notes for her remarkable new CD, African Lullaby, producer Shana Dressler refers this ancient musical form as “love songs for children.” And of course she is right — there is something that calls to the heart of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Langston-Hughes.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/2/2000 Langston Hughes Transcript What better place to begin Black History Month than with Langston Hughes, who reminds us of the poetry–singing, ringing, soaring, impassioned poetry that is such an essential part of the African American experience. A lesser known aspect of Hughes’s creative […]
You’re hearing part of the first composition by the world’s most astonishing musical genius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Music-for-the-Holidays.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/23/1999 Music for the Holidays Transcript There’s something about the sound of xylophones, that usually makes me want to head for the hills–unless it’s Pappageno’s glockenspiel in the Magic Flute, or Carl Orff’s kids with their magic rhythms. But I must confess that a […]
You’re hearing a section from one of the most delightful musical albums ever made for young people — Carl Orff’s “Music for Children,” which was first released in the late 1950s.
We’re listening to a little of the closing day concert for a week-long workshop that Mr. Johnnie Billington, a Master Folk Artist from the Mississippi Delta, has been holding here at the University of Florida to teach middle-school students how to play the blues.