Greenhouse Music
Podcast series / Child / Classical musicThe Greenhouse Music Podcast is your go-to destination for fun and engaging music education tailored just for kids! Join us on a journey through the magical world of music, where each episode is packed with rhythm, melody, and stories that inspire young minds. Whether we’re exploring the basics of rhythm with clap-along activities or diving into the lives of famous composers, every 10-20 minute episode is designed to nurture your child's love for music. Perfect for young listeners, parents, and educators, The Greenhouse Music Podcast makes learning music a joyful adventure that kids will look fo...
Sound Waves Act Like Ocean Waves? Play Listen & Guess! (Ep 135)
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Did you know the waves at the beach and the sounds in your favorite song are secretly cousins? Join Miss Delana and Mr. Darien to find out what a wave really carries, why long waves make low notes, and how to listen like a navigator in a game of Listen & Guess! In this episode, music makers will:
• Learn the crest, trough, and wavelength of an ocean wave
• Discover why a tall sound wave is loud and a long one is low
• Find out why your voic...
We Know the Way: How Moana's Song Carries 3,000 Years of Ocean History
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Long before GPS, compasses, and maps, Polynesian wayfinders crossed the biggest ocean on Earth using only the stars, the waves, and the birds. 🌊 In this episode, Miss Delana (joined by special co-host Mr. Darien!) dives into the real history behind Moana's "We Know the Way": how master navigators like Mau Piailug memorized 220 stars, read the ocean like a drumbeat, and passed down a 3,000-year-old tradition through voice and song. Kids will play "What Would a Wayfinder Do?," learn a brand-new star chant, and write their own wayfinding song by the end...
Happy Birthday, Part 2! Kid Questions About Music: Singing Animals & a Birthday Song from Around the World
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Happy Birthday, Part 2! Kid Questions About Music
Welcome back, music makers! The birthday celebration continues. In Part 2 of our two-year anniversary special, Miss Delana finishes answering YOUR questions, and Willow joins her right in the studio.
Have you ever wondered whether animals can make music? Whether an elephant could really play an instrument? Or why some people see colors when they hear a song? By the end of this episode, you'll know all three, plus you'll sing along in a brand-new game.
In this episode:
Happy Birthday Greenhouse Music: Kid Questions About Music (Part 1)
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It's our SECOND birthday — and this one belongs to you, music makers.
We asked kids to send in recordings of their questions about music, and you delivered. Voices from all over Alaska. A family in Salt Lake City. Kids as young as four. In this episode, Miss Delana answers them one by one! These are real questions from real kids, with real answers.
Best part? MORE are coming next Episode!!
Then stick around for The Sound Hunt: a simple activity you can do ri...
Peter and the Wolf: Prokofiev's Musical Story Through Instruments| Music for Kids
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In just four days, composer Sergei Prokofiev created one of the world's most beloved orchestral pieces—and he did it to teach children about musical instruments. Peter and the Wolf is pure genius: every character gets their own unique instrument sound.In this episode, Miss Delana uncovers:✓ How Prokofiev uses instruments as storytelling (the flute is the bird, the oboe is the stubborn duck, the French horns are the lonely wolf)✓ What a "leitmotif" is and why it matters for music and movies✓ How composers make intentional choices to make us...
Gershwin's Train Ride: How 11 Days Changed American Music Forever
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What happens when you hear music in TRAIN WHEELS?
In January 1924, George Gershwin learned about the biggest musical opportunity of his life from a newspaper. He had
weeks to write a masterpiece—but here's where it gets wild: he composed Rhapsody in Blue in just 11 DAYS on a train ride
to Boston, listening to the clickety-clack rhythm for inspiration.
This episode is about so much more than one song:
✓ The story of how a 25-year...
Weirdest Instruments You've Never Heard Of: Theremins, Singing Saws & Ben Franklin's Glass Armonica
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What if you could play music without ever touching your instrument? This week, Miss Delana takes music makers on a tour of the strangest, most wonderful instruments most grown-ups have never heard of — the hands-in-the-air theremin, the moaning waterphone, the shimmering cristal baschet, the singing saw, and the glass armonica that Benjamin Franklin loved more than any of his other inventions (and that some people once feared could drive you mad!). Play our new listening game, Name That Weird Sound, and take home a challenge: invent your own instrument. Be...
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band: Meet the 1886 Fourth of July Story Disney Turned Into a Movie
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140 years ago this week — on July 5, 1886 — seven farm kids from a Dakota Territory family named Bower made the entire U.S. Army brass band pack up and walk off a wooden platform in Rapid City. And nobody had even INVITED them to play. In this episode Miss Delana tells the true story of the Bower Family Band — meets the whole brass family of instruments (cornet, trumpet, trombone, tuba, baritone horn) — plays five rounds of Real or Ridiculous? — and finds the surprising Disney and Sherman Brothers ending. Perfect for homeschool music class...
The Bach Family Reunion: 4 Famous Sons, 1 Very Famous Dad
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Happy Father's Day! 🎼 In Episode 128, Miss Delana takes kids on a musical family reunion with the four famous sons of Johann Sebastian Bach — Wilhelm Friedemann, CPE Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich, and Johann Christian. Each son became a remarkable composer... and each one found a completely different musical path from his father. Along the way, we'll discover why CPE Bach was once MORE famous than his own dad, how Johann Christian Bach befriended a young Mozart, and what it means to find your own musical voice when you come from a leg...
How to Write a Song Kids Never Forget | The Secret Formula of Richard M. Sherman
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You already know his songs. You just didn't know his name.
"It's a Small World." "A Spoonful of Sugar." "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." "The Bare Necessities." One man — working with his brother at a piano in Burbank, California — wrote songs that have lived in your brain since before you could read. His name was Richard M. Sherman, and he was born on June 12th, 1928.
In this episode, Miss Delana cracks open the secret formula behind the most unforgettable songs in Disney history — and it turns out, it fits i...
The Drummer Boy Who Wouldn’t Quit: Johnny Clem & Civil War Drums for Kids
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In this Memorial Day episode of the Greenhouse Music Podcast, Miss Delana tells the true story of Johnny Clem, the famous young drummer boy from the Civil War who refused to quit even after being told he was too small.
Kids will learn how drums were once used as a real-life language on the battlefield, with different drumbeats telling soldiers when to wake up, march, charge, fall back, and rest. This episode also includes a big Memorial Day edition of Real or Ridiculous?...
Inside the Orchestra: The School Clubs of the Symphony
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What if the orchestra wasn't just a group of musicians — but a school full of clubs, each with its own personality? 🎻🎺🌬️🥁
In this episode of the Greenhouse Music Podcast, Miss Delana takes kids on a tour of the four orchestral instrument families — strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion — by walking down the hallway of an imaginary music school and peeking into each "club." Kids will discover what makes each family unique, how each one actually makes its sound, and which group might match their own personality.
🌱 In this episode, your kids...
What does music ACTUALLY do to your brain?
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What does music ACTUALLY do to your brain? 🧠🎵
Welcome back to the Greenhouse Music Podcast — the best music class you've ever heard! In this episode, Miss Delana takes kids inside the music science laboratory to explore some of the strangest, weirdest, most jaw-dropping music experiments scientists have ever done.
We meet cows that give more milk to Beethoven 🐄, a 400-year-old Italian dance that people once believed could cure spider bites 🕷️, a Swedish choir whose heartbeats actually synced up while they sang ❤️, and a very real story about eve...
Vivaldi: The Man Who Painted Spring with a Violin
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🎻 He was a red-haired priest who kept sneaking out of church to write music. He taught orphan girls who became the most famous musicians in Europe. He wrote 500 concertos — and then the whole world forgot him for 200 years.
His name was Antonio Vivaldi. And today, Miss Delana is taking you inside one of the most famous pieces of music ever written — The Four Seasons: Spring — to discover how a violin can literally paint a thunderstorm, a meadow full of birds, and yes… a snoring dog. 🐶💤
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Musical Detectives: Match the Character to Each Planet! | Gustav Holst's The Planets for Kids
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A Greenhouse Music Podcast episode inspired by Gustav Holst's The Planets
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Put on your detective hat, music maker — because today we're solving the most out-of-this-world musical mystery in the whole galaxy! 🔍🎶
In this episode of the Greenhouse Music Podcast, Miss Delana takes you on a mission through outer space and into the imagination of one of history's most creative...
Why Does Celtic Music Make Your Feet Move? Jigs, Reels & the Polka That Took Over the World 🍀
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Happy almost-St. Patrick's Day, music makers! 🍀
Have you ever been sitting there minding your own business… and a song comes on… and suddenly your foot just STARTS GOING? You didn't decide to move. It just happened.
There is a whole family of music that has been doing exactly that to human bodies for over a thousand years. And today we are figuring out WHY.
In this episode we explore:
🎶 What Celtic music IS — and why it was always designed for moving, not sitting
🥁 The JI...
The Girl Who Conducted: The Brave Story of Antonia Brico
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What does a conductor actually do… and how do they lead an entire orchestra without making a single sound?
In this episode of the Greenhouse Music Podcast, we begin our March mini-series, Brave Voices in Music, with the remarkable true story of Antonia Brico — one of the first women to conduct major orchestras in the early 1900s.
At a time when women were rarely invited...
Musical Clues: Songs That Led the Way to Freedom
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Can music carry secrets?
In this episode, we explore how spirituals like Follow the Drinking Gourd and Wade in the Water held hidden instructions during the Civil War era. As we listen closely, we uncover musical clues — in rhythm, repetition, and melody — that helped guide people toward freedom.
This episode invites kids to listen beyond the surface and discover how music can carry courage, hope, and direction.
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The Unfinished Symphony & the Composer Who Followed His Heart
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What if music could tell a story without using any words at all?
In today’s episode of the Greenhouse Music Podcast, we step into the musical world of Franz Schubert — a composer who followed his heart, wrote over 600 songs, and created music that sounds like galloping horses, spinning wheels, and quiet prayers.
We explore:
How Schubert’s friends formed secret music gatherings called SchubertiadesWhat a Lied is and how music can “paint pictures”The mystery behind the famous Unfinished SymphonyWhy Ave Maria is one of...The Man Behind The Nutcracker- it's not who you think
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Think you know who created the Nutcracker?
Think again.
Here is a wonderful new episode of The Greenhouse Music Podcast
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🎶 Nurturing Young Minds Through Music Education 🎶
Discover engaging music lessons and inspiring stories designed just for kids! Visit us at greenhousemusicak.com and follow us on YouTube and Facebook for more musical adventures.
Welcome Back
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Hey! I missed all of you wonderful listeners.
Here I am, back and looking forward to another episode and music fun to share with you.
This ones a short one as we get back into a new season!
I hope you enjoy
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Hollys Heart of Christmas 🎄 Episode 25
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The final chapter in Holly's Heart of Christmas Journey!
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Support the show
Explore the World of Music with the Greenhouse Music Podcast
🎶 Nurturing Young Minds Through Music Education 🎶
Discover engaging music lessons and inspiring stories designed just for kids! Visit us at greenhousemusicak.com and follow us on YouTube and Facebook for more musical adventures.
Hollys Heart of Christmas 🎄 Episode 24
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Kids follow along Holly, little Levi, and the Bennet family as the story begins to unfold. Today’s clue sets everything in motion… and it just might lead Holly somewhere special.
🌟 Don’t forget!
Download your 25 Days of Christmas Journey Print-Out, so your kids can follow along, track each clue, and stay immersed in the magic:
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Be sure to listen to the episodes in order, because each day builds on the last.
Let the Christma...
Hollys Heart of Christmas 🎄 Episode 23
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Kids follow along, Holly, little Levi, and the Bennet family as the story begins to unfold. Today’s clue sets everything in motion… and it just might lead Holly somewhere special.
🌟 Don’t forget!
Download your 25 Days of Christmas Journey Print-Out, so your kids can follow along, track each clue, and stay immersed in the magic:
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Be sure to listen to the episodes in order, because each day builds on the last.
Let the Christma...
Hollys Heart of Christmas 🎄 Episode 22
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Kids follow along Holly, little Levi, and the Bennet family as the story begins to unfold. Today’s clue sets everything in motion… and it just might lead Holly somewhere special.
🌟 Don’t forget!
Download your 25 Days of Christmas Journey Print-Out, so your kids can follow along, track each clue, and stay immersed in the magic:
👉 green.myflodesk.com/hollysheart
Be sure to listen to the episodes in order, because each day builds on the last.
Let the Christma...
Hollys Heart of Christmas 🎄 Episode 21
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Kids follow along Holly, little Levi, and the Bennet family as the story begins to unfold. Today’s clue sets everything in motion… and it just might lead Holly somewhere special.
🌟 Don’t forget!
Download your 25 Days of Christmas Journey Print-Out, so your kids can follow along, track each clue, and stay immersed in the magic:
👉 green.myflodesk.com/hollysheart
Be sure to listen to the episodes in order, because each day builds on the last.
Let the Christma...
Hollys Heart of Christmas 🎄 Episode 20
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Kids follow along Holly, little Levi, and the Bennet family as the story begins to unfold. Today’s clue sets everything in motion… and it just might lead Holly somewhere special.
🌟 Don’t forget!
Download your 25 Days of Christmas Journey Print-Out, so your kids can follow along, track each clue, and stay immersed in the magic:
👉 green.myflodesk.com/hollysheart
Be sure to listen to the episodes in order, because each day builds on the last.
Let the Christma...
Hollys Heart of Christmas 🎄 Episode 19
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Kids follow along Holly, little Levi, and the Bennet family as the story begins to unfold. Today’s clue sets everything in motion… and it just might lead Holly somewhere special.
🌟 Don’t forget!
Download your 25 Days of Christmas Journey Print-Out, so your kids can follow along, track each clue, and stay immersed in the magic:
👉 green.myflodesk.com/hollysheart
Be sure to listen to the episodes in order, because each day builds on the last.
Let the Christma...
Hollys Heart of Christmas 🎄 Episode 18
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Kids follow along Holly, little Levi, and the Bennet family as the story begins to unfold. Today’s clue sets everything in motion… and it just might lead Holly somewhere special.
🌟 Don’t forget!
Download your 25 Days of Christmas Journey Print-Out, so your kids can follow along, track each clue, and stay immersed in the magic:
👉 green.myflodesk.com/hollysheart
Be sure to listen to the episodes in order, because each day builds on the last.
Let the Christma...
Hollys Heart of Christmas 🎄 Episode 17
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Kids follow along Holly, little Levi, and the Bennet family as the story begins to unfold. Today’s clue sets everything in motion… and it just might lead Holly somewhere special.
🌟 Don’t forget!
Download your 25 Days of Christmas Journey Print-Out, so your kids can follow along, track each clue, and stay immersed in the magic:
👉 green.myflodesk.com/hollysheart
Be sure to listen to the episodes in order, because each day builds on the last.
Let the Christma...
Hollys Heart of Christmas 🎄 Episode 16
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Kids follow along Holly, little Levi, and the Bennet family as the story begins to unfold. Today’s clue sets everything in motion… and it just might lead Holly somewhere special.
🌟 Don’t forget!
Download your 25 Days of Christmas Journey Print-Out, so your kids can follow along, track each clue, and stay immersed in the magic:
👉 green.myflodesk.com/hollysheart
Be sure to listen to the episodes in order, because each day builds on the last.
Let the Christma...
