"THE CHILDREN ARE PLAYING" is a tiny fairy-tale of a piece for solo flute written by Denmark's best-known composer Carl Nielsen in 1920 as incidental music for a play called "The Mother." The whimsical music is a tip of the cap to Hans Christian Andersen and sounds like kids on playground on a spring day--leaping and laughter and teasing and taunting with a mix of sun and clouds. 

Georg Philip Telemann, Fantaisie No. 12

Claude Debussy, Syrinx

Carl Nielsen, The Children are Playing

All flute piece performed by  Karen Kevra 

Frank Loesser, I'm Hans Christian Andersenperformed by Danny Kaye

Artwork: Sibylle von Olfers, Mother Earth and Her Children

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