Tag: John Cech
Beethoven’s Wig
That’s part of Haydn’s “Surprise Symphony” set to words on a CD called Beethoven’s Wig,” which features such other favorites as Bach’s “Bouree” for guitar, Delibes’ “Pizzicato from Sylvia,” and a most astonishing version of Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.”
A Year With Frog and Toad
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Year-with-Frog-and-Toad-music-review-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/15/2006 A Year With Frog and Toad Transcript For many ancient calendars, springtime marked the beginning of the new year, and so it does for those hibernating animals, like frogs and toads — both the ones found in nature and the ones that appear […]
Mother’s Day Music
That’s the Chicago Children’s Choir from their lovely CD called Open Your Heart, which gathers together a group of songs from around the world.
Cartoonist’s Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Cartoonists-Day-and-Front-Street-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/9/2006 Cartoonist’s Day Transcript The funny line drawings that we today refer to as cartoons have been with us for probably as long as people have drawn on the walls and floors of caves or in the wet sand of beaches. The name actually […]
Mother Goose Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mother-Goose-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/2/2006 Mother Goose Day Transcript It was Mother Goose Day yesterday — a cause for celebration in many towns across the country, where parents push brightly decorated baby carriages and strollers and pull wagons loaded with children dressed in their May finery or in […]
Doc Watson’s Sings Songs for Little Pickers
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Doc-Watsons-Songs-for-Little-Pickers.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/28/2006 Doc Watson’s Sings Songs for Little Pickers Transcript All this month we’ve been airing programs about the poetry of words. There’s also a kind of poetry that’s made by fingers over the strings of a guitar — like Doc Watson’s. Just have a […]
Looking for the Roots of Tag
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Looking-for-the-Roots-of-Tag.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/27/2006 Looking for the Roots of Tag Transcript One of the most familiar, if not the oldest, of children’s games is “Tag” or one of its many variations, played on school yards, and in parks, backyards, and free spaces all over the world. It’s […]
Happy Bees
That’s Ralph and Gabrielle Kotkov singing the title song from a new CD called Happy Bees based on a recent picture book by Arthur Yorinks.
High School Musical
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/High-School-Musical-music-review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/14/2006 High School Musical Transcript It’s the season when high schools around the country are putting on their spring musicals. That high school institution is the subject of a popular new Disney movie and a soundtrack that’s been climbing the best-seller charts this spring. […]
O’Brient Science Fair Projects
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Science-Fair-Projects-at-the-OBryant-School.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/10/2006 O’Brient Science Fair Projects Transcript We’re heading for the home stretch of the school year, and it’s time to get really serious about those science fair projects. If you’re a student at the O’Brient High School for Math and Science in Boston, you’ve […]