Tag: Music
Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Bernsteins-Young-Peoples-Concerts.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/25/2000 Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts Transcript In 1958, the American composer and conductor, the late Leonard Bernstein, whose birthday it is today, gave the first two in a series of popular televised performances for young people about the nature of music. In many ways, […]
ODC
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/ODC.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/24/2000 ODC Transcript This is “Recess!” and this is John Cech. We’re talking about some of the things that are happening in the world of children’s culture. Brief sound clip It’s American Dance Week, and we attended a performance for young people by the […]
Dragonflies the Baby Cries
That’s the Alloy Orchestra from Cambridge, Massachussetts, providing the soundtrack for a new movie, “Dragonflies the Baby Cries,” a short, around ten minute, nearly silent film by Jane Gilooly about children and their magical, secret lives.
Lulie the Iceberg
You’re hearing a small section from the first, mood-setting movement of the American composer Jeffrey Stock’s music for Lulie the Iceberg.
Woody Guthrie
That’s Woodrow Wilson Guthrie singing one of the songs he wrote for his young daughter, Cathy, in the 1940s.
Mary McLeod Bethune
That’s Donna Lynne Coulter, Medicine Man Ya Ya, and friends singing the opening for their tribute to the great American educator, Mary McLeod Bethune, whose birthday it is today.
MP3s
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/MP3s.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 5/5/2000 MP3s Transcript Here’s Koren Stembridge on the Internet. Last Wednesday evening, I got my first introduction to MP3s. Don’t worry, I’ll explain. By 7:45 p.m., the only patrons left in the building were three of my all-time favorite teenagers Sarah, Amanda, and Joe. […]
Ravel’s Children
You’re hearing a little from one of the most recorded pieces of modern classical music, Ravel’s “Bolero”–though the French composer, who was born today in 1875, might be a little surprised to hear it played on a toy piano.
Carl Orff’s Music for Children
You’re hearing a section from one of the most delightful musical albums ever made for young people — Carl Orff’s “Music for Children,” which was first released in the late 1950s.
Singing the Blues with Mr. Johnnie Billington
We’re listening to a little of the closing day concert for a week-long workshop that Mr. Johnnie Billington, a Master Folk Artist from the Mississippi Delta, has been holding here at the University of Florida to teach middle-school students how to play the blues.