That’s the opening for Erik Satie’s first Gymnopidie for piano. It was a very experimental piece to have written at the time, during the late 1800s, though it was one of the tamer things that Monsieur Satie composed during his career at the front of the avant guard in France.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dirty-Wow-Wow.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/16/2007 Dirty Wow Wow Transcript Dirty Wow Wow and Other Love Stories, A Tribute to the Threadbare Companions of Childhood. Don’t you love that title? Here’s the premise for this book by Cheryl and Jeffrey Katz. The Katzes are designers, and once at a […]
That’s a few measures from John Phillip Souza’s rousing “Stars and Stripes Forever” from a new CD called Good Music for Little Guys, a compilation of classical pieces.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Animal-Crackers.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/25/2007 Animal Crackers Transcript How’s this for a buzz of toe-tapping nonsense, from the Wee Hairy Beasties on their CD, Animal Crackers, from Bloodshot Records. Brief Sound Clip: We’d better stop there, or the Ragtime Duck will have us all unpacking our kazoos to play along […]
If you’re starting to pull together those loose ends for a family car trip this summer, you might want to consider packing a copy of this new CD compilation, Sing Along with Putumayo.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Caps-and-Gowns-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/8/2007 Caps and Gowns Transcript This month, you may well find yourself in the audience, watching a young person you know making that walk across the stage to receive a diploma — from college, high school, middle school, and even kindergarten. Your young scholar […]
That’s Brooke Shields with the opening words from Margaret Wise Brown’s 1942 The Runaway Bunny, set to an original score here by Glen Roven, the Emmy award winning composer.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/When-I-Was-Very-Young-music-review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/25/2007 When I Was Young Transcript Nonsense, we know, is a fine art, and some of the very best of it is served up with a good bit of blarney, like Len Graham does in this traditional Irish song. Brief Sound Clip: This is […]
You all know that music — those familiar opening chords for the longest running children’s television show currently on PBS, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, which premiered on May 22, 1967.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/1607-A-New-Look-at-Jamestown.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/8/2007 A New Look at Jamestown Transcript It’s the 400th anniversary this month of the founding of Jamestown, the site of the first English-speaking presence to survive on the coast of the North American continent and eventually to expand inland. The establishment of this […]