Classical Sprouts

Kate shares one of her favorite (but somehow also least favorite) Venezuelan folk song, 'El Sapo'!

We're getting festive this season and getting ready to dance! We'll learn a Venezuelan folk song, go the the opera, play video games, and head to space!

Ballet superstar, Native American advocate ... Maria Tallchief was COOL.

Join the trickster coyote, the lumbering bear, the swimming salmon and the majestic eagle as they get their new names from the Spirit Chief. Composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate is our guest this week on Classical Sprouts guiding us through this musical story!

Composers have been inspired by their feline friends for a long, long time. This week on Classical Sprouts, explore cat-themed pieces of classical music and stretch in the sun, chase a mouse, walk on a keyboard and more!

Explore the Dies Irae, a spooky medieval melody that still shows up in all kinds of music - from Franz Liszt to Frozen!

Go Into The Woods, to Ancient Rome and to the Tony Awards with the music of Stephen Sondheim and the Pasadena Playhouse's Producing Artistic Danny Feldman this week on Classical Sprouts.

What happens when you combine classical music with bluegrass? A goat rodeo! This week on Classical Sprouts, join Producer Emily as she shares some of the music from The Goat Rodeo Sessions, performed by Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan.

Experience Mozart's famous opera through the eyes of everyone's favorite birdcatcher, Papageno!

This composer was a contemporary of Franz Lizst, but didn't have her work published during her lifetime. Now, Interlochen Arts Camp Instructor of Piano Jocelyn Swigger is on a mission to uncover, publish, and perform the music of Agnes Tyrrell! Hear it here first!

Kindness is key in Rossini's take on Cinderella, where there's no magic: no glass slippers, no pumpkin carriage, and no fairy godmother!

Learn about the history of the saxophone through the actual instruments themselves! Jake Goldwasser is a saxophone player, a saxocologist, and the curating fellow with the Greenleaf Collection at Interlochen Center For The Arts, and he's our guest on Classical Sprouts this week, bringing to life the stories of some really cool and really old saxophones!

Soft-hearted Pirates! Fast-talking Major-Generals! Love, insomnia, battles, and love for the Queen! We’re heading to the shores of Cornwall, England with our pirate costumes as we explore the Gilbert and Sullivan favorite, "The Pirates of Penzance!"

We're swabbing the deck, hanging out with cats and goats, listening to some reallllly old saxophones and more this season on Classical Sprouts!

Dig into four movements of Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" and hear how they sound as the original piano score, how it grows into a piece for orchestra, and how other ensembles have imagined them!

Heard of the oud? How about the darbuka? Find out what they are on this musical tour of the Middle East!

Kate shares a Venezuelan folk song that was used to calm down cows when they are being milked!

Gnomes, dancing chicks, a witch's hut ... we have lots of paintings and music to explore!

It's time to raid your patio for percussion instruments!

Why were John Philip Sousa and his marches so famous? Find out here!

Enchanted garden + magic bird = hit ballet

The self-described "velvet gentleman" had all kinds of quirks.

Grab your swimsuit or lace up your tennis shoes — we're getting sporty!

Wendy Carlos's surprising combination of the brand-new Moog synthesizer and Bach's music became a massive hit!

Recapping the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest!