Tag: Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak, Still Popping Up
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Maurice-Sendak-Still-Popping-Up.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/17/2006 Maurice Sendak Transcript You’re hearing Jean Shepard reading the opening lines from one of the most important American picture books of the 20th century, Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. The Wild Things are turning 43 this fall, but they had already been […]
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 […]
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 […]
Night Kitchen Radio Theater
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Turning-in-to-the-Night-Kitchen-Radio-Theater.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/20/2005 Night Kitchen Radio Theater Transcript I can remember the days (and evenings) when the radio was the dramatic centerpiece of most households — a source for entertainment and, of course, for news events — like this: Brief Sound Clip: Don’t be alarmed — […]
The Lindbergh Baby
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Lindbergh-Baby.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/1/2005 The Lindbergh Baby Transcript On March 1, 1932, between 8 and 9 in the evening, someone put a rickety ladder up to the nursery window of the country home in Hopewell, New Jersey, belonging to the most celebrated couple in the world at […]
Maurice Sendak’s Pincus and the Pig
That’s Maurice Sendak, who wrote the libretto and narrates this Klezmatic version of Sergei Prokofiev’s classical standard. Sendak has renamed it Pincus and the Pig, and the music is provided by the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra.
Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival
That’s the opening from The Magic Lion, an animated film by Charles Githinji, from the National Film Board of Canada, which has a long tradition of producing some of the most original animated movies in recent times.
The Art of Maurice Sendak
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Art-of-Maurice-Sendak-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/10/2004 Art of Maurice Sendak Transcript It’s Maurice Sendak’s birthday today, and the award-winning playright Tony Kushner, Sendak’s friend and collaborator (on the recent picture book, Brundibar), has offered a remarkable present for the occasion: The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present. This large, […]
A Child’s Guide to Freud
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Childs-Guide-to-Freud.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/6/2004 A Child’s Guide to Freud Transcript “If you beat your Daddy at Chinese Checkers…call this Healthy Aggression. If he decides to get mad about this, call him Insecure. If he changes his mind and smiles, call him unstable. If you trip him on […]
Carol King’s Valentine to Childhood
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Carole-Kings-Rosie.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/6/2004 Valentine to Childhood Transcript It’s the birthday today of Carole King, the Brooklyn-born, singer -songwriter who gave us, with her then husband Gerry Goffin, such hits as “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” “Take Good Care of My Baby,” ” “Up on the […]