Beethoven and Jane Austen - December 16

Saturday, December 16, 2023

Today is National Chocolate-Covered Anything Day, Stupid Toy Day, and Boston Tea Party Day.

Winter Resource of the Day: Cartoon Academy - Winter Wonderland: That's Snow Business

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: BEETHOVEN AND JANE AUSTEN
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ON THIS DATE

• 1653 - Oliver Cromwell becomes lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
• 1773 - Colonists dump over 300 crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
• 1777 - Virginia is the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. 
• 1811 - The first of the New Madrid earthquakes, with an estimated magnitude of 7.7, strike the central Mississippi Valley
• 1944 - The Battle of the Bulge begins when German forces launch a surprise attack against Allied forces in Belgium.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1770 - German composer Ludwig van Beethoven
• 1775 - English author Jane Austen
• 1863 - Spanish philosopher and writer George Santayana
• 1866 - Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky
• 1901 - Anthropologist  Margaret Mead
• 1941 - Journalist Lesley Stahl

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Ludwig van Beethoven's - Fur Elise - LISTEN
• Ludwig van Beethoven's - Moonlight Sonata - LISTEN
• Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven - LISTEN

THEME:  Beethoven

• Grades 1-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - FM Symphony Orchestra Young People's Concert: Symphony No. 9 (3:51) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit  -The Classical Period: “Storm Movement” from Beethoven’s 6th Symphony (5:41) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit  - The Genius of Beethoven (9:20) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit  - Beethoven's Emperor Concerto (10:50) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Juliek's Violin: Part 3 - Beethoven and Night (12:12)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NET 360° - The Chiara Quartet Plays Beethoven by Heart (8:28) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video -  In Concert With CMS: Beethoven and Mozart (56:56) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS VIdeo -  Sound Bites - Celebrating 250 Years of Beethoven (57:48) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - The Philadelphia Orchestra - Beethoven NOW (1:26:13)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - Great Performances - Scott Yoo Performs Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata (3:51) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video -  Live From Lincoln Center - Beethoven's Humor (1:46) - VIEW

THEME:  Jane Austen

• Grade 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read - Pride and Prejudice (5:55) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece Theater - Sense and Sensibility 1: Dinner at Norland Park (2:13) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece Theater - Sense and Sensibility 2: Barton Cottage (1:35) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece Theater - Sense and Sensibility 3: The Proposal (2:15) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece Theater - Sanditon: An Opinionated Woman (2:32) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece Theater - Sanditon: An Independent Heiress (2:23) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece Theater - Sanditon: Slavery and Its Legacy in England (1:27) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Endures (5:37) - VIEW
• Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Unspoken (5:31) - VIEW
• Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Untamed (5:29) - VIEW
• Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Unwritten (5:44) - VIEW
• Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Lessons (5:25) - VIEW
• Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Aspirations (5:28) - VIEW
• Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Heroines (6:09) - VIEW
• Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Love Stories (6:15) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - On Story - Deconstructing Jane Austen (26:47) -VIEW

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NH WORLD - 11.3 Comcast (956) More Options

MEREDITH WILLSON: AMERICA'S MUSIC MAN
Saturday, 12/16 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
He performed under Sousa & Toscanini. He scored films for the likes of Chaplin & wrote popular songs performed by Sinatra and the Beatles. And when the River City boys band marched on Broadway, Meredith Willson caught the whole world's ear. MEREDITH WILLSON: AMERICA'S MUSIC MAN Streaming Video

INDEPENDENT LENS - The Picture Taker
Saturday, 12/16 from 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD
The vibrant, complicated life of Ernest Withers African American photographer of the Civil Rights movement, and paid FBI informant was anything but black and white. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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