Imperfect Pitch

The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Melly Victor of Stoopkid Stories joins us for the story of Ella Fitzgerald's first performance at the famous Apollo Theatre. Also, we talk about the history of tuning, how the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I also tried to standardize musical tuning, and how singers hurt their voices to keep up with instrumentalists raising the relative pitch.

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0:00.0	It's available wherever you get your books, and if you want it with a copy, please leave
0:22.8	a review, be sure to request it at your local library too, that will help.
0:27.0	This is an Indie Effort, I am IndieOperation, thank you.
0:38.2	Well hello, it's episode 78 of The Past and the Curious, and I am MixEleban, and this is
0:43.7	my show.
0:44.7	First off, I want to say hello again, and thanks to everyone who came out to WBUR, the podcast
0:51.3	festival in Boston at the beginning of this month of April.
0:55.4	It was amazing to meet so many listeners, and I was thrilled to see everyone, I hope
1:00.6	you had a good time, I was literally moved to tears.
1:03.4	So if anyone out there has pictures that they want to share, send them on my way, I'd
1:06.9	love to see them.
1:07.9	It was also great to spend so much time with so many of my kids listen podcast pals, and
1:12.6	speaking of kids listen podcast pals, the first story of this episode features my good friend,
1:18.8	Melly Victor.
1:19.8	Melly is the creator and voice of Stoop Kids Stories podcast, but you've heard her work
1:24.4	all over the place, including on Imagination Neighborhood, the podcast.
1:28.3	You may have even seen her on stage in New York City.
1:31.9	She also happens to be the chair of kids listen, she also happens to totally rule.
1:37.0	She's going to narrate a story about one of my favorite singers, Ella Fitzgerald, and
1:40.9	then the second half of the episode looks at an age old problem, tuning musical instruments
1:46.3	with each other.
1:47.7	But you might be surprised by some of the problems that came about because people didn't
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