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Balloons

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Balloons-and-the-Baron.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/6/2001 Balloons Transcript Yesterday, in 1783, the Montgolfier brothers in France launched the first balloon into the air. It floated up a quarter of a mile, and was carried by the wind for a mile, and before it landed, ten minutes later, it had […]

The Magic Flute

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Magic-Flute.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/29/2000 The Magic Flute Transcript I remember on Saturday afternoons, in my old neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, the windows would be open, weather permitting, and from them poured the Metropolitan Opera. It was one way this mixed, ethnic neighborhood regularly showed […]

Wolfgang Wunderkid

You’re hearing part of the first composition by the world’s most astonishing musical genius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The Mozart Effect

This is the music that may make your score, on average, 8 or 9 points higher on a section of the Stanford Binet I. Q. test — according to three University of California at Irvine researchers.