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The original programs from HBO acquaint children with the world of classical music, painting and dance through movement, color, variability forms, animated stories with funny animals, the music of the world's greatest composers PI Tchaikovsky, Bach, Strauss, Puccini, Debussy, Satie, E. and J. Ellington. Cartoon captures the imagination and emotions as the youngest children and their parents.

This impressive four-CD set of 79 poets reading their work begins with an 1890 recording of Walt Whitmans America, the first of many pieces forming an enchanting audio-mosaic. A labor of love, In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry suffers only in its omissions (T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop). Considered individually or as a whole, these 122 poems poignantly remind us that a poet, as W.H. Auden once said, is a person passionately in love with language.