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• All about the celesta 20.05.2024 7Min.

  It looks like a small upright piano, but is shaped like an organ and sounds like a glockenspiel... It’s the Celesta! We’re learning about and listening to music that features the celesta, a bell-like keyboard instrument that is often associated with magical-sounding music this week on Classical Sprouts.
• The art of listening with Evelyn Glennie 13.05.2024 8Min.

  Scottish percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie has been a rockstar in the classical music world for decades. She’s performed at an Olympic opening ceremony, has traveled all over the world to perform a wide variety of percussion instruments and styles, she’s known as the first person to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist and she’s deaf. We’ll learn how this amazing musician uses her whole body to listen on today's episode of Classical Sprouts.
• Partying With Respighi's 'The Birds' 06.05.2024 16Min.

  Was that a bird or a violin? Fluttering wings, scratching feet, pecking beaks: Italian composer Ottorino Respighi captured these sounds and more in his piece for small orchestra called "The Birds" (or, in Italian, "Gli Uccelli").
• Cécile Chaminade's Flute Concertino 29.04.2024 9Min.

  Her music was played at Queen Victoria’s funeral, she composed an opera, multiple works for orchestra, was an accomplished pianist herself, and wrote a very famous concertino for flute. We’re learning about French composer Cécile Chaminade and that famous flute concertino this week on Classical Sprouts!
• Yo-Yo Ma and that one Bach cello suite 22.04.2024 6Min.

  Yo-Yo Ma has been playing the same Bach cello suite since he was only 4 years old, right as he started learning the cello. Now, he's using his fame (and performances of that same cello suite) to promote what he believes in.
• Amy Beach 15.04.2024 19Min.

  Composer Amy Beach was a lot of "firsts" - the first woman to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra, one of the first composers to train exclusively in the United States and more.
• Pachelbel's Canon 08.04.2024 8Min.

  It's chord progression appears in countless pop songs, it's played at tons of weddings and repeats the same 8 notes over and over again… what is it? It’s Pachelbel’s Canon! We’ll get into what makes this piece so popular, and how to spot it in the wild this week on Classical Sprouts.
• Classical Sprouts: Saint-Saens 'The Swan' 01.04.2024 7Min.

  It was the only movement of Camille Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals" that he allowed to be performed while he was still alive. "The Swan" depicts a majestic bird gliding along the water and is now standard repertoire for cellists!
• Meet The Kanneh-Masons 25.03.2024 18Min.

  This musical group of seven siblings is known around the world for their impressive musicianship.
• Vivaldi's "Spring" 18.03.2024 7Min.

  Snow is melting, the air no longer feels sharp, and the sun has returned! How should we celebrate? With Antonio Vivialdi of course! We’re listening for the sounds of warmer weather in the "Spring" movement of Vivaldi’s "Four Seasons" today on "Classical Sprouts."
• What is a sonata? 11.03.2024 6Min.

  It’s in the name of countless pieces of music… but what makes a sonata, a sonata? We’re going to figure out the building blocks of a sonata using Mozart’s Sonata No. 16 in C Major this week on Classical Sprouts.
• Season 7 is sprouting! 04.03.2024 1Min.

  Spring is just around the corner, which means it's time for our newest season of Classical Sprouts - the Awesome Classical Music Podcast for Kids!
• Linda Ronstadt and The Anatomy of a Musical Joke 26.02.2024 5Min.

  American rock and pop singer Linda Ronstadt sang the role of Mabel in the 1983 movie version of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, "The Pirates of Penzance." But she wasn't known as an opera singer. Hear how she used that to her advantage in this episode of Classical Sprouts!
• Ravel's 'Boléro' 19.02.2024 8Min.

  How did composer Maurice Ravel write a piece of music that lasts for 15 whole minutes and only has one rhythm and melody? What did audiences think?? Find out this week on Classical Sprouts.
• L'Elisir d'Amore 12.02.2024 18Min.

  Love! Handsome soldiers! Quack doctors! Weddings! And love potions? Learn all about this romantic opera on Classical Sprouts!
• Composers Of African Descent With William Chapman Nyaho 05.02.2024 17Min.

  We're hanging out with this acclaimed Ghanaian-American pianist as we learn about some of his favorite composers of African descent!
• QuinTango 29.01.2024 20Min.

  What makes tango tango? Find out this week with the acclaimed tango ensemble QuinTango!
• 'Sleeping Beauty' and the Garland Waltz 22.01.2024 7Min.

  Did you know the melody from Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" love duet "Once Upon a Dream" was actually written by Tchaikovsky? We're listening to the Garland Waltz this week on Classical Sprouts.
• Holst's 'The Planets: Jupiter' 15.01.2024 6Min.

  This week on Classical Sprouts, we're going to space with composer Gustav Holst, as we explore "Jupiter" from his suite, "The Planets."
• 'The Blue Danube' 08.01.2024 6Min.

  It's played every year on New Year's Day, but what is Johann Strauss II's "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" about?