About This Daily Classroom Special
The Music Quest
focuses on discovering the wonders of our musical universe. Visit it for a musical question—a description and hints about a mystery composer, musician, instrument or musical excerpt.
The Music Quest was written by former Teachers Network Web Mentor Kristi Thomas, a
teacher at William F. Halley Elementary School Fairfax Station, Virginia.
Answer 12
Vince Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi is the composer of the music known
by millions around the world as the sound of the Peanuts gang. His composition "Linus & Lucy" brings a universal smile
when it breaks Charlie Brown and his friends into
spontaneous dance, defining these well-loved characters for
an entire generation.
Guaraldi was a jazz pianist who formed his own
famous trio in San Francisco in 1959. When Peanuts producer Lee
Mendelson heard his music on the car radio, he knew it was
the jazz track he was looking for to accompany the cartoon.
His collaboration with Guaraldi spanned sixteen half-hour
shows and one movie, "A Boy Named Charlie Brown," for which
Guaraldi was nominated for an Academy Award. "I think
Vince's music was one of the contributions that made Charlie
Brown shows successful," shares Mendelson, "Vince gave it a
sound, an individuality, that no other cartoon had ever had.
I'd say that over the last fifteen years we've received as
much mail asking about the music as we have about anything
else in the shows." |
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