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Classics for Kids - March 2013 Franz Joseph Haydn Program 1 - About Franz Joseph Haydn
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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The Life and Music of Franz Joseph Haydn.

Bought by KVLU, WGBH Radio Boston, KUHF, and WQXR


  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
From School Shootings to Kazoos, Common Fence Venue Encircles Tragedy and Joy
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Folk River
Caption: At Common Fence Music, it's bring your own picnic basket and bottle of wine. At the Gathering of Fiddlers & Fishermen, on stage are, from left, Ed McGuirl, Mike Fischman and MC Jacob Haller., Credit: Rhonda J. Miller
While America continues to grieve over the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut and search for w...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 04:07
Classics for Kids - February 2013 Scott Joplin Program 4 - Black Composers of Classical Music
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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A look at classical music by black composers.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KVLU, WQXR, and KUHF


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
Classics for Kids - February 2013 Scott Joplin Program 3 - Classical Music and the Movies
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Classical music that is such a big part of a movie that the two have become linked forever.

Bought by KVLU, WGBH Radio Boston, KVLU, WQXR, and KUHF


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 5
Classics for Kids - February 2013 Scott Joplin Program 2 - Ragtime Music
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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An Explanation and Sampling of Ragtime Music.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KVLU, WQXR, and KUHF


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
Classics for Kids - February 2013 Scott Joplin Program 1 - About Scott Joplin
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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The Life and Music of Scott Joplin

Bought by KVLU, WGBH Radio Boston, and KUHF


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 3
Classics for Kids - January 2013 Georg Philipp Telemann Program 4 - The Gigue is Up
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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"Gigue" is the French word for jig -- how did this lively dance turn up in classical music?

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KVLU, and KUHF


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 3
Classics for Kids - January 2013 Georg Philipp Telemann Program 3 - Self-Taught Composers
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Georg Philipp Telemann never studied composition — he taught himself how to write music. Hear about quite a few other self-taught composers.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KVLU, and KUHF


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 3
Classics for Kids - January 2013 Georg Philipp Telemann Program 2 - Go for Baroque
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Learn about the Baroque era, the time in which Georg Philipp Telemann composed.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KVLU, and KUHF


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 3
Classics for Kids - January 2013 Georg Philipp Telemann Program 1 - About Telemann
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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The Life and Music of Georg Philipp Telemann

Bought by KVLU, KUHF, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 3
Classics for Kids - December 2012 Piotr Tchaikovsky Program 5 - Carnegie Hall
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Carnegie Hall opened with a concert conducted by Piotr Tchaikovsky. The story of one of the world’s premier concert venues.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, KUHF, and KVLU


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
Classics for Kids - December 2012 Piotr Tchaikovsky Program 4 - Traditional Christmas Classical Music
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Classical music that traditionally gets played during the Christmas season.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, KUHF, and KVLU


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
Classics for Kids - December 2012 Piotr Tchaikovsly Program 3 - The Nutcracker
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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The story and music of The Nutcracker.

Bought by WMNR, KMXT, WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, KUHF and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 6
Classics for Kids - December 2012 Piotr Tchaikovsky Program 2 - Ballet
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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An exploration of ballet and Tchaikovsky's ballet compositions.

Bought by WMNR, WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, KUHF, and KVLU


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 5
Classics for Kids - December 2012 Piotr Tchaikovsky Program 1 - About Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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The Life and Music of Tchaikovsky

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, KUHF, and KVLU


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
Classics for Kids - November 2012 Leonard Bernstein Program 4 - American Composers with a Boston Connection
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Many American composers lived and worked around Boston.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KUHF, and KVLU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 3
Classics for Kids - November 2012 Leonard Bernstein Program 3 - Operettas in English
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Defining the operetta with many examples including Bernstein's "Candide."

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KUHF, and KVLU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 3
Classics for Kids - November 2012 Leonard Bernstein Program 2 - Bernstein and Musical Theater
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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A Look at Bernstein's Great Broadway Productions

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KUHF, and KVLU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 3
Classics for Kids - Leonard Bernstein Program 1 - About Leonard Bernstein
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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The Life and Music of Leonard Bernstein

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KUHF, and KVLU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 3
Classics for Kids - October 2012 Edvard Grieg Program 4 - Halloween Music
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Spooky classical music for Halloween.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KUHF, WQXR, and KVLU


  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
Classics for Kids - October 2012 Edvard Grieg Program 3 - Scandinavian Composers
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Music by composers from Norway, Denmark and Sweden, plus Finland and Iceland too!

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KUHF, WQXR, and KVLU


  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
Classics for Kids - Edvard Grieg Program 2 - The Story of Peer Gynt
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Grieg wrote incidental music for Ibsen's play Peer Gynt. Here's the story.

Bought by KMXT, WGBH Radio Boston, KUHF, WQXR, and KVLU


  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 5
Classics for Kids - Edvard Grieg Program 1 - About Edvard Grieg
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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The life and music of Edvard Grieg

Bought by KUHF, WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, and KVLU


  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
Classics for Kids - September 2012 Felix Mendelssohn Program 5 - Women Composers
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn's older sister, was a talented pianist and composer too. A look at Fanny and other women composers.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, and KUHF


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 3
Classics for Kids - September 2012 Felix Mendelssohn Program 4 - Child Prodigy Composers
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Felix Mendelssohn was a child prodigy. Hear about other composers who started just as early -- or even earlier.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, KUHF, and KVLU


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4