Saxophones - November 6

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Today is Basketball Day, Button Day, National Nachos Day, and Saxophone Day.

Native American Heritage Month Resource of the Day - Navajo Shaker Dance
Drum Month Resource of the Day -  Pitch: Super Sounding Drums

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  SAXOPHONES

ON THIS DATE

• 1947 - Meet the Press, the longest-running TV program in history, makes its debut.
• 2012 - Barack Obama defeats Mitt Romney and wins reelection. 
• 2012 - Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay individual to be elected to the U.S. Senate

BIRTHDAYS

• 1814 - Belgian inventor of the saxophone Adolphe Sax
• 1854 - Composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa
• 1861 - Inventor of basketball James Naismith
• 1946 - Actor Sally Field
• 1948 - Musician Glenn Frey
• 1988 - Actor Emma Stone

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Glen Fry - The Heat is On - LISTEN
• John Coltrane - Equinox - LISTEN

THEME: SAXOPHONES

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Put Down the Duckie (5:10) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - It Takes A Street Song with Hoots (2:39) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - INDIE ALASKA - I am a Sixteen-Year-Old Saxophone Sensation (5:47) -  VIEW
• Grade 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Sound Field - How Charlie Parker Changed Jazz Forever (11:46) - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Go Get Your Horn (22:13) - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS VIdeo - Jazz 24/7 - Jazz Conversations - Alexa Tarantino  (27:55) - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS VIdeo - Jazz 24/7 - Jazz Conversations - Bill Pierce (34:04) - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Conversation with Kirk Whalum (27:25) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339