Tag: John Cech
Catch That Train with Dan Zanes
That’s the beginning of the title song from Dan Zanes and Friends’ new CD, Catch That Train.
Folk Playground
This collection is a quadruple scoop of songs that you can’t get enough of — like that favorite food of summertime, served up by Trout Fishing in America.
International Youth Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-UNs-First-International-Youth-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/10/2006 International Youth Day Transcript Here’s an astonishing statistic: about one sixth of the world’s six billion people — that’s a billion — are between the ages of 15 and 24 years old. They represent, according to UNESCO, “the largest generation of adolescents in […]
Inventing Away in August
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Inventing-Away-in-August-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/7/2006 Inventing Away in August Transcript It’s National Inventors’ Month, and my guess is that’s because August is the peak month for vacations. And if you’re not traveling, it’s the perfect time for fixing things, which always means improvising, and that, as we know, […]
Maurice Sendak’s Legacy: Brundibar
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Brundibar.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/12/2006 Brundibar Transcript You’re hearing the moving lullaby from the children’s opera, Brundibar, which was written by Hans Krása in the late 1930s and performed fifty-five times in the Terezin concentration camp in 1943. It was sung by children who would soon perish in the […]
Play Ball!
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Play-Ball-Some-Basic-Baseball-Books-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/5/2006 Play Ball! Transcript If it’s raining and the game’s called, you can still keep the youngest baseball players you know dreaming of their next at-bat with some of the many new books that have been appearing about the great American (and increasingly, the […]
Jazz Baby
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jazz-Baby-music-review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/2/2006 Jazz Baby Transcript “I started out to make a little CD just for my own kids, using the very talented jazz musicians who were sleeping on my couch and eating my spaghetti,” writes Lisa Beth Kovetz on the liner notes for the three-CD […]
The Children’s Playgrounds of Noguchi
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-childrens-Playground-of-Isamu-Noguchi.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/29/2006 The Children’s Playgrounds of Noguchi Transcript During his long life, from 1904-1988, the world-renowned artist Isamu Noguchi made paintings and later sculptures of wood, paper, bronze and stone. And for more than 30 years he created innovative play spaces for children, only one […]
Scat Like That
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Scat-Like-That-music-review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/26/2006 Scat Like That Transcript Now, here’s a song from the prolific duo of Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer that has my complete culinary attention: Brief Sound Clip: This tasty, bi-lingual excursion into the world of pies is on a new CD called Scat Like […]
Songs from the Neighborhood
That’s Jon Secada with the opening for his rendition of the theme song that Fred Rogers made famous on his Mister Rogers Neighborhood, which premiered today in 1967, and is still being rerun on television stations everywhere.