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The Skull in the Rock

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In 2008, Professor Lee Berger--with the help of his curious 9-year-old son--discovered two remarkably well preserved, two-million-year-old fossils of an adult female and young male, known as Australopithecus sediba; a previously unknown species of ape-like creatures that may have been a direct ancestor of modern humans. This discovery of has been hailed as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in history. The fossils reveal what may be one of humankind's oldest ancestors.

Author:

Lee R. Berger & Marc Aronson

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1140L

The Girl from the Tar Paper School

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Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on Washington, there was Barbara Rose Johns, a teenager who used nonviolent civil disobedience to draw attention to her cause. In 1951, witnessing the unfair conditions in her racially segregated high school, Barbara Johns led a walkout—the first public protest of its kind demanding racial equality in the U.S.—jumpstarting the American civil rights movement.

Author:

Teri Kanefield

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1100L

Debussy

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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

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1. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun 10'54
London Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas

2.   The Girl with the Flaxen Hair 2'43
       from Preludes, Book 1
       Paul Crossley, Piano

3.   Fetes 6'21
       from Two Nocturnes
       Philharmonia Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas

Handel

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Track Listing:

1.   Arrival of the Queen of Sheba 3'05
       from Solomon
       English Chamber Orchestra/Raymond Leppard

       Water Music Suite No. 1 (Excerpts)
2.   3. [Allegro] - Andante - [Allegro] da capo 7'37
3.   5. Air 2'38
4.   6. Minuet 3'52
5.   7. Bourree 1'07
6.   8. Hornpipe 1'32
       New York Philharmonic/Pierre Boulez

Ravel

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Track listing:

1. Bolero 15'24
London Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas

2. Pavane for a Dead Princess 5'45
Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy

3. Alborada del gracioso 8'40
Orchestre National de France/Lorin Maazel

4. "Feria" from Rapsodie espagnole 6'41
London Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas

Mozart

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Track Listing:

1. The Marriage of Figaro Overture, K. 492 4'43
Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil

2.   Theme from Elvira Madigan (Andante) 6'39
       from Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467
       Murray Perahia, Pianist & Conductor
       Chamber Orchestra of Europe

       Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 545 ("Sonata facile")
3.   I. Allegro 1'49
       Glenn Gould, Piano

Bach

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Track Listing:

1.   "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" 3'10
       from Cantata No. 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
       Mormon Tabernacle Choir
       (Richard P. Condie, Director)
        Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy

       The Anna Magdalena Notebook, And. 114
2.    Minuet 1'35
       (arr. Thomas Frost)
       Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy

Bernstein

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Track Listing:

1. Candide Overture 4'22
Philharmonia Virtuosi/Richard Kapp

       Selections from West Side Story:
2.   Maria 2'39
3.   Tonight 6'36
4.   Somewhere 5'14
       Peter Hofmann, Tenor
       Deborah Sasson, Soprano
       Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas

Tchaikovsky

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Track Listing:

       Selections from The Nutcracker, Op. 71
1.   Russian Dance 1'07
2.   Chinese Dance 1'00
3.   Dance of the Reed Flutes 2'07
4.   Arabian Dance 3'01
5.   Waltz of the Flowers 6'56
       Philharmonia Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas

Gershwin

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Track Listing:

1.   Strike up the Band 2'44
       (arr. John Green)
       Boston Pops Orchestra/John Williams

2.   Rhapsody in Blue 16'14
       (orchestrated by Ferde Grofe)
       Leonard Bernstein, Piano and Conductor
       Columbia Symphony Orchestra

3.   Prelude No. 1 1'24
       (arr. Irwin Kostal)
       Katia & Marielle Labeque, Pianos

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