Classic Breakfast with Emma Ayres

6.05 - 9.00am Weekdays

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Classic Breakfast is presented by Emma Ayres

Whether its Elgar with your eggs or Mozart with your muesli, whatever you like for brekkie one thing's for sure, Classic Breakfast makes getting out of bed as uplifting as possible.

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Wednesday 17 March 2010

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Seeking all school music [classical] stars!

Across the nation our schools from the city and country are making music of all styles. Your school may be making music which we, on Classic Breakfast, could use. It could be choral, instrumental or ensemble playing. Why not make a CD and send it into us, and you may hear it broadcast across the country on Classic Breakfast.

Send your CD to:
Emma Ayres
Classic Breakfast
PO Box 9994
Melbourne 3001

Music Details

Music played on Classic Breakfast on March 17 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 11 |

For earlier dates, start at the index of Archived Music Details.

Podcast - Grace Notes

Grace Notes are enjoyable, capricious additions to music, and sometimes our lives in general. So in the Grace Notes lounge, you will be sitting in a comfy chair with musicians of all sort - professionals, amateurs, organisers, young, eternally young and the generally fascinating. Something to catch your ear with Emma Ayres, presenter of ABC Classic FM’s Breakfast show.

Andrea Goldsmith - novelist, writer and partner of the late Dorothy Porter

Andrea Goldsmith came in to the Grace Notes Lounge, ostensibly to talk about her late partner Dorothy Porter's extraordinary and highly potent book, On Passion. However the conversation takes many turns, so you can also find out here about heavy metal music and perfect quiet, the rituals of two writers living together and Dorothy Porter's continued presence through the written word... 12 March 2010

Download MP3 Audio File Size: 22.8MB

The Happy Childhood Project - our adult cellist!

The Happy Childhood Project is comparing the ways of learning the cello with an eight year old and a sixty year old, over the course of a year.
Meet Peter - he's been on this planet for sixty years and you can find out here about cello hugs, feeling on top of the world and kickstarts, but not the motorbike variety.... 05 March

Download MP3 Audio File Size: 8.14MB

The Happy Childhood Project begins!

Our year long project to compare the ways of learning the cello between an eight year old and a sixty year young beginner has played its first note! Meet Jessie - she has just had her first cello lesson and you can find out here about bowholds, spikes (and the dangers of them) and how the cello can help your occasional sadness..... 26 February 2010

Download MP3 Audio File Size: 5.39MB

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Swoon at 8.15am

By a quarter past 8 on your average weekday morning, most frantic households are ready for a break. So down tools, get comfortable in your favourite chair and take time out from a frenzied morning routine. 'Swoon' is your invitation to indulge in a magical moment of musical bliss. Time to let your mind wander to wherever relaxing, lilting, ravishing music takes you. So let your world stand still with 'Swoon' every morning on Classic Breakfast.