Tag: John Cech
Barking Through the Dog Days
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Barking-Through-the-Dog-Days-with-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/3/2005 Barking Through the Dog Days Transcript It’s the “dog days” of summer, that are named for Sirius, the dog star, one of the brightest stars in the heavens at this time of year. But I suspect the dog days are also referring to […]
Lost Worlds and Ancient Places
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lost-Worlds-and-Ancient-Places.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/25/2005 Lost Worlds and Ancient Places Transcript The summer is the perfect time for kids to go exploring, in search of far away places and lost worlds. And there are many recent books that will help to whet their appetites for ancient lands, like […]
Symphonic Variations
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Some-Symphonic-Variations.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/22/2005 Symphonic Variations Transcript One of the fascinating stories in classical music has its beginning in this famous passage from Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations”: Brief Sound Clip: These 32 short pieces were written in 1737 for an orphan and musical prodigy, Johann Gottlieb […]
The Chorus and Millions
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Chorus-and-Millions.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/20/2005 The Chorus and Millions Transcript Two recent films about the lives of young people — Millions and The Chorus — are worth your trip to the local movie rental store or to the movies themselves. Millions is the latest work from British director, Danny Boyle, who is best […]
Fabling Around Japan
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Fabling-Around-Japan.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/18/2005 Fabling Around Japan Transcript The scene is a deserted hut on a mountain top during a very ferocious thunderstorm. Into the cabin stumble a goat and, later, a wolf. They’re both terrified of the storm, and in the dark they can’t see who […]
Lullabies from the Axis of Evil
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lullabies-from-the-Axis-of-Evil-Music-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/15/2005 Lullabies from the Axis of Evil Transcript One of the more interesting and provocative musical projects to come out recently is an album from Norway called Lullabies from the Axis of Evil. Its composer, Knut Reiersrud, and producer, Erik Hillestad, mean for the CD […]
Henry David Thoreau
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Celebrating-Henry-David-Thoreau.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/11/2005 Henry David Thoreau Transcript It’s Henry David Thoreau’s birthday this week, an appropriate time (though any time is good) to introduce children to the workings of this original mind. A philosopher-naturalist, Thoreau offered an alternative set of values to the myth of American […]
Sing a Song With Six Strings
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Sing-a-Song-with-Six-Strings-Music-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/8/2005 Sing a Song With Six Strings Transcript Imagine that your dad is the rock guitarist Slash, and he’s got his own new version for you of that old, old song about the sixpence and that pie full of blackbirds. Here’s a little of […]
The Mud Book
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/John-Cages-Mud-Book-and-Action-Jackson.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/6/2005 The Mud Book Transcript With full summer upon us, there are sure to be days in a child’s life when there is nothing much to do, especial if it’s been raining, and play spaces have turned to mud. But that’s also one of […]
Fireworks
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Fireworks.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/4/2005 Fireworks Transcript It’s the Fourth of July, our national day of independence, and the holiday that’s most connected with fireworks — though we certainly aren’t limiting ourselves to just that day. We Americans will set off fireworks on almost any occasion, from birthdays […]