Classics For Kids
Introduce children to classical music in a fun and entertaining way.
Visit Show Website http://www.classicsforkids.comRecently Aired
-
HD
Dmitri Kabalevsky: About Dmitri Kabalevsky
By the time Dmitri Kabalevsky was 14, the Russian Revolution ...
By the time Dmitri Kabalevsky was 14, the Russian Revolution had turned his country into a communist state. In spite of the Soviet Union's control over artists of all kinds, Kabalevsky managed to make a successful career as a composer.
-
HD
Giacomo Puccini: Classical Music that Turned into Musical Theater
Jonathan Larson, the composer of the musical ''Rent,'' used the ...
Jonathan Larson, the composer of the musical ''Rent,'' used the same plot for this musical as Puccini did for La Boheme. Other composers also used classical music when they wrote their Broadway hits. ''Kismet'' is adapted from compositions by Russian composer Alexander Borodin and ''The Song of Norway'' uses tunes by Edvard Grieg to tell the story of Grieg's life.
-
HD
Giacomo Puccini: Bohemian Music
Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boheme is about struggling artists in ...
Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boheme is about struggling artists in Paris. Its title means ''the bohemian lifestyle.'' But Bohemia isn't in France; it's in the Czech Republic. Other composers such as Antonin Dvorak, Bedrich Smetana, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Jules Massenet, were also inspired by this part of the world, using its music and describing its beautiful countryside in their works.
-
HD
Giacomo Puccini: A Brief History of Italian Opera
Around the year 1600, Italian composers started writing theater pieces ...
Around the year 1600, Italian composers started writing theater pieces that use music all the way through them. Instead of speaking, characters in operas sing their lines. From Claudio Monteverdi, who wrote the earliest opera that is still performed, through Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini, Italy has produced some of the world's finest opera composers.
-
HD
Giacomo Puccini: About Giacomo Puccini
By the time Italian composer Giacomo Puccini was born in ...
By the time Italian composer Giacomo Puccini was born in 1858, there had already been four generations of musicians in his hometown of Lucca. Most were church musicians, but Giacomo had other ideas. When he was a teenager, he went to hear a performance of Verdi's Aida. From that moment on he knew that what he wanted to do was write operas. He did, and became one of Italy's most beloved operatic composers.
-
HD
Johannes Brahms: Classical Music Featuring Dances from European Countries
Many composers used European dance forms in their work. Dvorak, ...
Many composers used European dance forms in their work. Dvorak, Haydn, Chopin and Beethoven are just a few of the composers featured here.
-
HD
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dancing
The Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms were never really intended ...
The Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms were never really intended for dancing. But that doesn't mean that people in Hungary don't dance! Richard Graber, the director of a Hungarian dance company in Cleveland, talks with Naomi Lewin about Hungarian dancing.
-
HD
Johannes Brahms: The Brahms Hungarian Dances
When he was a young pianist, Johannes Brahms accompanied a ...
When he was a young pianist, Johannes Brahms accompanied a Hungarian violinist, and fell in love with Hungarian music. His own Hungarian-flavored dances were written to entertain his friends at parties. Those friends convinced Brahms to publish his dances. When the first set was a hit, Brahms wrote and published another set.
-
HD
Johannes Brahms: About Johannes Brahms
Brahms, Bach, and Beethoven are known as the "Three B's" ...
Brahms, Bach, and Beethoven are known as the "Three B's" of classical music. Brahms always knew that he wanted to be a composer -- by the time he was six, he had thought up his own system for writing music down on a page.
-
HD
William Grant Still: Black Composers of Classical Music
William Grant Still was a 20th century African-American composer. But ...
William Grant Still was a 20th century African-American composer. But hundreds of years before he lived, there were other black composers. And there are black composers of classical music alive today.
