Classics For Kids
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 18:12:00
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Sinopse
Introduce children to classical music in a fun and entertaining way.
Episódios
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Women's History Month 4: What's It Like to Be a Conductor?
26/03/2022 Duração: 06minA program featuring acclaimed conductor JoAnn Falletta, who talks about her early love of music, how seeing her first symphony concert inspired her to become a conductor, and all the listening and preparation that goes into being successful at her job.
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Women's History Month 3: Contemporary Women Composers
19/03/2022 Duração: 06minThere are many women composers these days, and this program introduces some of them: Caroline Shaw, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Lera Auerbach, Kaija Saariaho, Chen Yi, Jennifer Higdon, Libby Larsen, Missy Mazzoli, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Tania Leon.
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Women's History Month 2: Women Composers of the Past
12/03/2022 Duração: 06minThough many societies either forbade or looked down on women who wanted to be composers, many persevered. This show highlights Francesca Caccini, Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, Louise Farrenc, Cecile Chaminade, Germaine Tailleferre, Hildegard von Bingen, Marianna Martines, Fanny Mendelssohn, Amy Beach, Florence Price, and Queen Lili'oukalani.
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Women's History Month 1: Women in History and Classical Music
05/03/2022 Duração: 06minHow women in world history - Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II, Aphra Behn, Joan of Arc, Emmeline Pankhurst, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, and Grace Hopper - inspired classical music compositions.
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Scott Joplin 4: Black Composers of Classical Music
26/02/2022 Duração: 06minMusic by composers with all kinds of hyphens to their African heritage: African-French, French-Cuban, African-English, and African-American.
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Scott Joplin 3: Classical Music and the Movies
19/02/2022 Duração: 06minLots of movies use classical music. Sometimes, that music is such a big part of the movie that the two become linked forever.
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Scott Joplin 2: Ragtime Music
12/02/2022 Duração: 06minRagtime music is truly African-American music. It combines rhythms that were brought to this country by slaves, with musical forms brought over to the United States from Europe. Ragtime uses syncopated rhythms -- that is, the accents in the melody are shifted away from the strong beats in the bass line underneath.
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Scott Joplin 1: About Scott Joplin
05/02/2022 Duração: 06minFrom a very early age, Scott Joplin supported himself as a performing pianist. Eventually, he earned a living selling his compositions, too. Thanks to Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag, the most famous of all piano rags, Joplin became known as the King of Ragtime Writers.
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Franz Joseph Haydn 5: Patriotic Songs By Classical Composers
29/01/2022 Duração: 06minMany countries around the world have national anthems and other patriotic songs that were written by classical composers. Haydn, Elgar and Verdi are just a few you'll explore here.
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Franz Joseph Haydn 4: Minuets
22/01/2022 Duração: 06minThe minuet is a dance that started in the 1700's in the French court. Gradually, the minuet began to be used for non-dancing purposes, as a musical form -- especially as the third movement of symphonies. Minuets found their way onto the stage, too, in operas, plays, and ballets.
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Franz Joseph Haydn 3: The Farewell Symphony
15/01/2022 Duração: 06minEvery year, when the weather turned nice, Prince Esterhazy -- Franz Joseph Haydn's employer -- moved his entire household to his summer palace. When it turned cold again, everyone moved back to the main palace in the city. But one fall, it stayed warm for a very long time, and the prince didn't budge. The musicians in his orchestra wanted to go home, and Haydn found a musical way to tell the prince it was time to go: the Farewell Symphony.
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Franz Joseph Haydn 2: Father of the Symphony
08/01/2022 Duração: 06minFranz Joseph Haydn never had any children, but the musicians who worked for him liked him so much they called him Papa Haydn. And Haydn is also known as the "Father of the Symphony." He wasn't the first person to compose symphonies, but he did help the symphony to grow up as a musical form.
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Franz Joseph Haydn 1: About Franz Joseph Haydn
01/01/2022 Duração: 06minFranz Joseph Haydn spent over thirty years working as music director for the Esterhazy family. By the end of his life, Haydn was both rich and famous, and he had gotten along well with his employers - pretty unusual for a composer of that time.
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Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 4: Traditional Christmas Classical Music
25/12/2021 Duração: 06minGeorge Frederick Handel's Messiah wasn't written for Christmas -- it was first performed in April. Hear some other pieces of classical music that traditionally get played during the Christmas season.
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Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 3: The Nutcracker
18/12/2021 Duração: 06minTchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based on a story by German author E.T.A. Hoffmann. In The Nutcracker, a Christmas present -- a nutcracker -- comes to life as a handsome prince. He takes the young girl who received him as a present on some fantastic adventures.
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Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 2: Ballet
11/12/2021 Duração: 06minBallet is a theatrical performance that tells a story using music, costumes, sets, and dance. Victoria Morgan, artistic director of the Cincinnati Ballet, talks with Naomi Lewin about ballet and ballet terms.
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Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1: About Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
04/12/2021 Duração: 06minSome composers in Tchaikovsky's day didn't think his music sounded "Russian" enough, but Tchaikovsky was Russian through and through. Tchaikovsky wrote symphonies, operas, songs, chamber music -- and of course, several wonderful ballets.
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Leonard Bernstein 4: American Composers with a Boston Connection
27/11/2021 Duração: 06minLeonard Bernstein grew up in the Boston area. Here are some more composers who spent time in and around that city.
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Leonard Bernstein 3: Operettas in English
20/11/2021 Duração: 06minLeonard Bernstein's "Candide" is an operetta. An operetta is like an opera, with one big difference. In opera, everything is sung, but in operetta, there are spoken lines between the singing. Composers who wrote operettas in English include Sir Arthur Sullivan (who can't be separated from William S. Gilbert, who wrote the words for Gilbert and Sullivan operettas), Victor Herbert, Sigmund Romberg, and Rudolf Friml.
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Leonard Bernstein 2: Bernstein and Musical Theater
13/11/2021 Duração: 06minWhen he was growing up, Leonard Bernstein loved to put on operas and other musical shows with his friends. That interest in musical theater continued all through his life, and produced such great Broadway musicals as "On The Town," "Wonderful Town," and "West Side Story."