Kids Commute: Kate's faves week!

By Kate Botello,

Published October 7, 2024 at 7:40 AM EDT

Classical IPR's Kate Botello takes questions from the students in the audience at Next Gen's "Mussorgsky in Miniature," presented in collaboration with the Traverse Symphony Orchestra and Great Lakes Center for the Arts

This is Kate's last week with Kids Commute and IPR, so we're sharing some of our very favorite Kids Commute music!

Dearest Kids Commuters,

Kate Botello here, with some news. I'm moving away to a new state, and this will be my last week with IPR, Quizbot and you.

I'm going to miss all of you so, so much!

While this is the last week that Quizbot and I are hosting the show, don't worry! IPR is working on something special: we want YOU to host the show and help us keep sharing awesome classical music with kids every day.

Click here for instructions on how to host the show!

Hosting Kids Commute and interacting with all of you has been a wonderful, special experience. Thanks to each and every one of you who have listened or answered our Quizlets over the years. Whether you've just joined us or have been with us the whole time, you're all Kids Commuters through and through.

This week, we're celebrating our joyous eight season run with some of my all-time favorite music featured on the show.

Thanks to Matt and Rayna Archibald, Tony Bero, John Bogley, Scott Clemens, Leslie Dunner, Matthew Duvall, Alexandra Herryman, Joseph Levesque, Peter Payette, Peggy Pierson, Amanda Sewell, Katie Schlomer, Matthew Schlomer, Dan Wanschura, and all who have been a part of Kids Commute over the years.

Extra special thanks to the one and only Emily Duncan Wilson, Kids Commute Producer extraordinaire. It's been an honor and a privilege to work with you. You're the best, Em.

Kids Commute Producer Emily Duncan Wilson is super awesome!

To Quizbot - Beep beep boop. Beep! Boop beep-beep boop beep. (Quizbot will understand what that means.)

Thank you all so much.

I'll leave you with words from "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White:

"You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing."

Love,

Kate

This week, we'll be hearing:

Quarteto en Guanguanco (Gavilan)
O figlie amabili/Cenerentola, vien qua! (Rossini)
Pomme Cannelle (Pradel)
When the Foeman Bares His Steel (Gilbert & Sullivan)
Firebird finale (Stravinsky)

KC Kate's faves week! Monday: Quarteto en Guanguanco by Guido Lopez Gavilan, performed by the Harlem Quartet

Kids Commute: Rhythm Week 2023!

KC Kate's faves week! Tuesday: "O figlie amabili/Cenerentola, vien qua!" from "La Cenerentola" by Gioachino Rossini, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Scottish Opera Chorus

Classical Sprouts: Rossini's 'La Cenerentola'

Here's a very funny version of the scene starring a Elina Garanca as Cenerentola!

KC Kate's faves week! Wednesday: "Pomme Cannelle" by Alain-Pierre Pradel, performed by William Chapman Nyaho

Kids Commute: William Chapman Nyaho week!

Classical Sprouts: Composers of African descent with William Chapman Nyaho

KC Kate's faves week! Thursday: "When the Foeman Bares His Steel" from "The Pirates of Penzance" by Gilbert & Sullivan, performed by Linda Ronstadt on the 1983 film soundtrack

Classical Sprouts: Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Pirates of Penzance'

Here's the whole scene that goes with "When the Foeman Bares His Steel" from the 1983 movie. Besides Linda/Mabel's bloodthirsty hilarity, check out the cool constable choreography!!