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| A visit from Kronos Quartet | |||||||||
| Air date | February 12, 1988 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 19 (1987-1988) | ||||||||
| Written by | Mark Saltzman | ||||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird and Snuffy are trying to play baseball when Alice gets in their way. Snuffy tells Alice to go far from him, which is also near Big Bird. She goes back and forth between them, and finally rests for a nap in the middle. |
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Cartoon | W for Wash (First: Episode 0485) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie wears socks on his ears and on his nose in order for Bert to guess which body part he's thinking of. (First: Episode 1640) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Me." (First: Episode 0421) |
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Animation | Un rectangulo (First: Episode 1630) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Jesse talk about love. |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates in and out. (First: Episode 0293) |
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Insert | Forgetful Jones thinks of ways of remembering, as visions of Maria, Luis and Gordon appear with a musical, vaudeville message - "Write It Down." (First: Episode 2295) |
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Cartoon | A man walks in an IN. (First: Episode 0511) |
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Film | Sounds Around the House v1: a dripping water faucet, a man playing the violin, a woman vacuuming, a teenager listening to pop music, and a passing elevated train. (First: Episode 1706) |
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Cartoon | Poverty F (First: Episode 0128) |
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Muppets | Pageant: How a flower grows Gladys the Cow stars as a seed. Ernie plays a rain cloud and Herry Monster is the sun, whose attentions cause the seed to bloom into a flower. |
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Cartoon | W for Willamina (First: Episode 0512) |
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Insert | Don Music is playing some music at Hooper's Store, but David isn't so sure about it. Don plays a medley of soft songs, then a loud one. Don realizes that the music he plays should make the customers think of food and brings in the Cooking Choir, a bunch of kids who sing about David cooking, then the customers eating. (First: Episode 2325) |
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Film | A girl narrates a segment about nature through winter and spring. (First: Episode 1966) |
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Cartoon | Ralph asks Marvin what would happen if he didn't have a mouth, a nose and ears. (First: Episode 0468) |
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Muppets | Monsterpiece Theater: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves — Alistair Cookie runs out of time counting the 40 thieves. (First: Episode 2402) |
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Cartoon | "Pinball Number Count" (#12) Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0985) |
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Film | Two kids watch as a veterinarian fixes a baby robin's wing, then lets it go. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 2292) |
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Muppets | Telly, Monster on the Spot reporter, interviews Nicole on being a big sister. He doesn't get too far interviewing her little brother though. (First: Episode 1963) |
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Cartoon | What's missing? (cow) (First: Episode 2028) |
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Film | A group of kids pick apples in an orchard, and take them into the cider mill to make apple cider. (First: Episode 1585) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird meets the Kronos Quartet in the yard. They explain to him how a string quartet works and how it's something like how they communicate: sometimes they're in unison and playing the same thing, while other times one or more will play different chords, having different "discussions." The music turns into an "argument" when nobody can play the same thing. |
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Cartoon | "The Story of Princess Twelvia". Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 1676) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Sleeping Beauty: Frog Kiss — Prince Charming turns Sleeping Beauty into a frog. (First: Episode 0453) |
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Cartoon | What if we celebrate Valentine's Day with chickens instead of hearts? (First: Episode 0488) |
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SCENE 3 | The Kronos players kick around a soccer ball with Big Bird before showing him how passing the ball to one another is something like how they practice playing music. They demonstrate with one person playing a long, round note on their instrument, which is then carried to the other members. The quartet plays a more complicated piece, but Big Bird is able to figure out who is "kicking" the melody around. |
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Cartoon | "¡Él juega fútbol!" (First: Episode 2104) |
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Cast | Gordon and the word "wand." (First: Episode 1491) |
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Cartoon | W For Wilbur (First: Episode 0366) |
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Film | A rhino and her baby (sepia-toned) (First: Episode 0408) |
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Cartoon | A woman serves milk to her cat. Several other cats join him, including a lion. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1017) |
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SCENE 4 | Joan observes that her horsehair bow is broken. Buster arrives ready to help out (having had a haircut earlier). |
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SCENE 4 cont'd |
The quartet plays the Sesame Street Theme during the credits, as Snuffy announces the sponsors. |
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