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Classics for Kids is a fun introduction to classical music for kids of all ages. Each month focuses on a different composer. In March 2014 it is L...
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 3
Classics for Kids is a fun introduction to classical music for kids of all ages. Each month focuses on a different composer. In March 2014 it is L...
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
Depicting a thunderstorm in music was one of Rossini's specialties. Here are some more examples of musical thunderstorms.
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
Usually, an overture is a piece of music played at the beginning of a play, opera or ballet in order to set the mood. But there are also other kind...
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
From: WGUC/ WVXU
The William Tell Overture was written to open an opera by Gioachino Rossini. The opera is based on a legend about the Swiss hero William Tell. Acco...
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 3
Italian composer Gioachino Rossini was born in 1792 and died in 1868, so you might think that he celebrated 76 birthdays. But Rossini was born in a...
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
Lt. Kijé is the story of an imaginary soldier, created when the Russian Tsar misread a smudged name on a list of his men.
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 4
In music, a suite is a specific collection of pieces. Here are some examples of various kinds of musical suites.
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
Prokofiev was not the only classical composer to paint a musical portrait of a sleigh ride on a snowy day. Listen as we take you through several ot...
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev lived and traveled around the world, but found that he was most at home in Russia. This look at his life takes yo...
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
From: WGUC/ WVXU
In celebration of the Christmas season, some classical compositions that have Christmas carols in them.
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 3
Ralph Vaughan Williams arrived on the scene just as a definite English classical music sound was being established. His three main teachers at the ...
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 3
Originally, a musical fantasy was a piece that instrumentalists made up as they went along. Eventually, fantasies evolved into pieces that composer...
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of the most important 20th century English composers. He spent years traveling the country collecting English folk s...
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
On this episode of "The Live Feed' we feature a dynamic husband and wife duo who together are the Emmy Award Winning masterminds behind The Zingho...
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- Added: Nov 12, 2013
- Length: 01:01:52
- Purchases: 1
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Benjamin Britten was asked to compose music for a film that explained the instruments of the orchestra to children. Britten borrowed a tune by one ...
- Added: Oct 10, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 2
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Benjamin Britten was asked to compose music for a film that explained the instruments of the orchestra to children. Britten borrowed a tune by one ...
- Added: Oct 10, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 2
Pizzicato is the Italian word for “plucked” -- it tells string players how to play their instruments at a given spot in the music. A lot of musical...
- Added: Oct 10, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
Benjamin Britten composed his Simple Symphony when he was twenty, but he based it on music that he'd written much earlier -- some of it when he was...
- Added: Oct 10, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 2
Classics for Kids is a fun introduction to classical music for kids of all ages. Each month focuses on a different composer. In November, 2013 it ...
- Added: Oct 10, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 2
Appropriately spooky classical music for Halloween.
- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
Music by composers who were playing with fire.
- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 3
The story of Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Firebird.
- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Aug 15, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
