Blind Tom
You’re hearing a little from a recent and the first recording of a piano composition called the “Oliver Galop” that was written in 1861 by Thomas Wiggins when he was about twelve years old.
George Washington’s Mother
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/George-Washingtons-Mother.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/22/2001 George Washington’s Mother Transcript Today is George Washington’s birthday, an appropriate time to remember that the father of our country also had a mother — Mary Ball Washington. Her rather unconventional, and at times eccentric character is the subject of a new video […]
Jazz
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jazz.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/15/2001 Jazz Transcript Jazz is in the air this winter — on Ken Burns’ monumental PBS documentary, and in numerous new recordings that introduce this uniquely African-American and quintessentially American art form to children and young people. One place that your budding Ellington or […]
Inventor’s Day Pop-Up
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Inventors-Day-Pop-Up.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/12/2001 Inventor’s Day Pop-Up Transcript It’s Thomas A. Edison’s birthday today, and it’s also Inventor’s Day — the perfect time for a terrific new book, Robert Crowther’s Amazing Pop-Up House of Inventions. Each of the five modern rooms in the book is filled with […]
Ella Jenkins
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ella-Jenkins.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/5/2001 Ella Jenkins Transcript That’s the Chicago-based singer, Ella Jenkins with an African chant from her new CD from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. It’s called “Songs, Rhythms, and Chants for the Dance,” and on it, Ms. Jenkins blends a score of musical genres, from spirituals […]
Black History Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Black-History-Month.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/1/2001 Black History Month Transcript That’s Medicine Man Ya-Ya reciting the last part of Maulana Karenga’s Libation Statement that opens the CD, “Teach The Children,” a collection of songs and prose poems, that celebrates famous African American figures in our history. There’s Harriet Tubman, […]
Edgar Allen Poe
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edgar-Allen-Poe.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/31/2001 Edgar Allen Poe Transcript It’s the birthday this month of Edgar Allen Poe, and you’ve been hearing Ted Jacobs’ fine musical interpretation of one of Poe’s poems, “Alone,” from a CD called “The Days Gone By — Songs of the American Poets.” This […]
National Kazoo Day
You’re hearing one of the most maligned of instruments — the kazoo — being featured in that excerpt from Jim Queskin’s classic “Jug Band Music.”
Potty Books
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Potty-Books.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/24/2001 Potty Books Transcript Incredible as it may sound, someone has pronounced January 27th to be National “Love Your Toilet” Day. And as though to commemorate this curious occasion, there has been an outpouring of new books designed to encourage […]
Learning Russian
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Learning-Russian.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/23/2001 Learning Russian Transcript One of our close friends is Russian, and she is raising her young child to speak that language first. Their son is a toddler — he’s just turned two — and everything in their house is now in Russian — […]