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Welcome to Intermezzo from Interlochen Public Radio, where we take a few minutes to bounce some ideas around about classical music.
Christy L’Esperance is cohosting this week with young listeners from far and wide, many of which are from this past summer’s Interlochen Arts Discovery Day Camp.
Yesterday, we did a little Halloween prep with music that helps us laugh in the face of clowns. Today we're venturing into big, dark and creepy houses.
Scary houses have been part of storytelling for about as long as houses have been around. One of those stories can be seen in a drawing and heard in music based on that painting. It’s the "Hut of Baba Yaga" from Modest Mussorgsky’s "Pictures at an Exhibition," based on a drawing of a cuckoo clock made to look like a scary house in an old folk story.
Modest Mussorgsky - "Hut of Baba Yaga"
This week's Mystery Melody
It's time to test your ears. Each week we have a mystery melody that we have to figure out together. It relates to our topic. (We'll make the melody less mysterious each day.)
If you know the mystery melody, text your name and the title and we’ll give you a shout out on Friday. The number to text is (833) 490-4718.
