Click on Classical: Saving the earth, saving the bassoon

Every Monday morning at 9:15, I join John Birge on Classical MPR to talk about stories we're featuring on our websites. Here's what we'll be discussing today.

In an effort to raise awareness of climate change and its effects, young composer Daniel Crawford—a University of Minnesota graduate—has written a string quartet that uses each of the four instruments to track temperature changes across a different band of Earth's ecosystem.

Meanwhile, bassoonist Bram van Sambeek warns that his own instrument could one day become "as endangered as the panda." Why? Kids these days, it seems, just don't gravitate to the bassoon. Van Sambeek is working to change that.

If you're like many Americans, you're spending some time this month beating the heat by escaping to a movie theater with a bag of popcorn and a pair of 3D glasses. Music is a big part of the summer's big films, and Garrett Tiedemann takes you inside the music of Mission: Impossible as well as The Fantastic Four—the new superhero movie that has a score co-written by none other than Philip Glass.

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