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Kids Commute: Moon Week!

An illustration of the Full Cold Moon of December 2023. (Image credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night)
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Chris Vaughan/Starry Night
An illustration of the Full Cold Moon of December 2023. (Image credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night)

This week on Kids Commute, we’re listening to music inspired by the moon!

We'll hear fun facts as well as music by Claude Debussy, Florence Price, Frank Ticheli, Eleanor Daley and Ludwig von Beethoven!

KC Moon Week! - MONDAY: Suite bergamasque, L. 75 III. Clair de lune
by Claude Debussy, performed by pianist Alice Sara Ott
KC Moon Week! - TUESDAY: 'Summer Moon'
by Florence Price, performed by pianist Lara Downes
KC Moon Week! - WEDNESDAY: 'Over The Moon'
by Frank Ticheli, performed by the University of Texas at El Paso Wind Symphony
KC Moon Week! - THURSDAY: 'Grandmother Moon'
Music by Eleanor Daley, lyrics by Mary Louise Martin, performed by the Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge
KC Moon Week! - FRIDAY: 'Moonlight Sonata'
by Ludwig van Beethoven, performed by pianist Kateryna Titova

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.

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Kate Botello is a host and producer at Classical IPR.
Emily Duncan Wilson is the producer of "Kids Commute."