Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Graphic-Novels.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/18/2004 Graphic Novels Transcript It’s the beginning of Teen Read Week, which isn’t such a contradiction in terms as it may seem. Teens actually do a lot of reading outside of school, but it’s usually not what we adults would recognize as being especially […]
If you’re tired of hearing the same old, same old, super-sweetly processed children’s music played by grown men dressed up as lip-syncing pirates, then just maybe your family is ready for the music you’ll find on Greasy Kid Stuff 2 a genre-blurring compilation of — well, let’s call them — children’s songs with techno, grunge, punk, club, and retro sounds.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Susan-Goodmans-On-This-Spot-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/11/2004 On This Spot Transcript As a graduate student, I studied with the poet, Charles Olson, who, among many other things — like coining the word, post-modern — held steadfastly to the idea that a poet had to locate him or herself in a […]
That’s part of the lovely Andantino from Claude Debussy’s String Quartet in G Minor. You can hear the rest of this gentle reverie on a new CD called In Utero, for parents and their as yet unborn but still attentively listening little ones.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Conversation-with-Children-About-Race.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/4/2004 Conversations with Children About Race Transcript Recently, at the University of Florida we began a campus-wide discussion about race, based on Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum’s book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? We wanted to continue the conversation today with […]
We’re in the Caribbean today, listening to Marlene Dorcena, the Haitian-born singer, with a traditional folksong about a Panama hat that keeps falling off a man’s head. This delightful tune is on a new CD compilation from Putumayo Kids called Caribbean Playground.
That’s Lisa Loeb, singing about “Butterflies” on her new CD for children, Catch the Moon.
By any chance does this sound a little “hobbity” to you? It’s from the final movement, called “Hobbits,” of Johan de Meij’s Symphony No. 1, which was inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and which premiered in 1988, some 30 years after the Ring books had been published.
You’re hearing one of the haunting songs from a new CD called Armenian Lullabies, which features the voice of Hasmik Harutyunyan, signing acapella and with the accompaniment of the Shoghaken Ensemble.
That’s the Grammy-award winning artist, David Holt, with a smidjin of one of his mountain music classics, “Little Log Cabin in the Lane,” from his Grandfather’s Greatest Hits.