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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.
This week, Christy L'Esperance's co-host is a rock expert named Brody, who will talk about five types of rocks and minerals. Christy will match each rock with a piece of rock-related music!
So far we've talked about green and black basalt and today, we'll tell you about red sandstone with fossils.
This red rock is flecked with blue plates from armored fish. These fish did not have jaws and they sucked in food from a hole. The rock was found in Colorado and is from a time period when Colorado was a sea.
Did you know that there's an amphitheater in Colorado near Denver named after that rock? It's called "Red Rocks Amphitheater," and it's the world's only naturally occurring and acoustically perfect amphitheater.
Because this rock contains fossils, let's listen to Camille Saint-Saëns's "Fossils" from his "Carnival of the Animals"!
Camille Saint-Saëns - "Fossils"
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.
