Music

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.

You’re hearing a small section from the first, mood-setting movement of the American composer Jeffrey Stock’s music for Lulie the Iceberg.

That’s Woodrow Wilson Guthrie singing one of the songs he wrote for his young daughter, Cathy, in the 1940s.

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.

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.

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.

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.