Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jazz-for-Kids-Music-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/23/2005 Jazz for Kids Transcript Some of the great jazz performers of the Thirties, Fourties, and Fifties featured musical numbers based on children’s songs as part of their recordings and regular concerts. There was and still is something totally delightful about hearing a consummate […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Reggae-for-Kids-Music-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/16/2005 Reggae for Kids Transcript How would this be as a song to wake up with each day? Brief Sound Clip: That’s Freddie McGregor with the Roots Radics Children’s Chorus with part of their song, “Three Little Birds,”on a CD called Reggae for Kids (from Raz […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Back-to-School-with-They-Might-Be-Giants-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/29/2005 Back to School with They Might Be Giants Transcript With school starting again soon — and in some places having already begun — kids will be reciting and writing the alphabet in earnestness across the country. Humor me for a second and imagine […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Bright-Spaces.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/26/2005 Bright Spaces Transcript Most of our children are usually able to play in protected spaces — somewhere in our homes, neighborhoods, and schools. But for young people who are living in homeless shelters, a place for play is often non-existent or make-shift at […]
That’s John McCutcheon with one of his tributes to the joys of summertime on his CD Summersongs from Rounder Records, another in McCutcheon’s CD cycle, The Four Seasons.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lets-Hear-it-for-Bozo-Music-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/5/2005 “Let’s Hear It For the Clown” Transcript It’s International Clown Week, and, in the U.S., one of our most famous clowns is Bozo — with his electric shock of red hair, his seven-acre shoes, his baggy blue jumpsuit with its pom-pom and a […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Some-Symphonic-Variations.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/22/2005 Symphonic Variations Transcript One of the fascinating stories in classical music has its beginning in this famous passage from Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations”: Brief Sound Clip: These 32 short pieces were written in 1737 for an orphan and musical prodigy, Johann Gottlieb […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lullabies-from-the-Axis-of-Evil-Music-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/15/2005 Lullabies from the Axis of Evil Transcript One of the more interesting and provocative musical projects to come out recently is an album from Norway called Lullabies from the Axis of Evil. Its composer, Knut Reiersrud, and producer, Erik Hillestad, mean for the CD […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Sing-a-Song-with-Six-Strings-Music-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/8/2005 Sing a Song With Six Strings Transcript Imagine that your dad is the rock guitarist Slash, and he’s got his own new version for you of that old, old song about the sixpence and that pie full of blackbirds. Here’s a little of […]
“If this street were mine,” Tomaz Lima sings in this well-known Brazilian lullaby, “I’d have it paved with precious little stones for you, my love, to walk on.” This tender cradle song is on a delightful CD, Brazilian Lullaby, from Ellipsis Arts.