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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
Classics for Kids - September 2012 Felix Mendelssohn Program 3 - Music Based on Shakespeare
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Series: Classics For Kids
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A look at music inspired by the work of William Shakespeare.

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


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 6
Classics for Kids - September 2012 Felix Mendelssohn Program 2 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Mendelssohn's music illustrates many of the characters and situations in Shakespeare's, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
Classics for Kids - September 2012 Felix Mendelssohn Program 1 - About Felix Mendelssohn
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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The life and music of Felix Mendelssohn.

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


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
Cinderella
From: Janean Jorgensen
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen
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The maid turned princess is the most-told tale on stage

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and KKRN


  • Added: Feb 21, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Disney On Broadway
From: Janean Jorgensen
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen
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Disney didn't invent the 'movical,' but certainly solidified its place on Broadway

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, KFOK-LPFM, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Once Upon a Time
From: Janean Jorgensen
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen
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Another visit with fairy tales on stage and screen

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KFOK-LPFM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
Fiddle-icious
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Ordinarily, if you want to perform with an orchestra you have to have years of musical experience and you have to go through a rigorous audition pr...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and KUT


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:42
  • Purchases: 3
Acoustic Youth
From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes
Caption: Adam Larkey
Many of the musicians who perform at fiddlers' conventions and music festivals throughout southern Appalachia are, in fact, young kids.

Bought by WMMT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3