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Just checking..

Were the listings below supposed to come up as hyperlinks? There don't seem
to be any web site addresses for each entry (except one on Linnaeus.) If
there are more web addresses, could you send them?

Great list! Thank you!

Amanda Chesworth
Educational Director, CSICOP
www.csicop.org


> The NY Times website for the story Erich posted also mentions some
> websites for science songs and song writers (I'm proud to claim Jef
> Poskanzer in my extended family):
> Where the Quarks Make Music All the Day
> For more songs that use science, here are some Web sites.
> * Archive of Dr. Walter F. Smith, professor of physics at Haverford
College
> * Science Songwriters' Association
> * Archive of Dr. Greg Crowther, biophysicist at the University of
Washington
>   * Archive of William Stirrat's science songs for children kept by
> Jef Poskanzer, a software developer
> * Artichoke's site
>
> I'm actively looking for music that would be appropriate for programs
> and activities in our upcoming exhibition, Linnaeus & America. (Our
> museum has an enthusiastic choral group.) A web search turned up
> several interesting possibilities:
> *a musical entertainment, Vivat Linnaeus! by Sarah Elliott for the NY
> Linnaean Society
> *a Linnaeus song, written and composed by Jan Stein Carter,
> Biology,Univ. of Cincinnati - Clermont College (you can hear her sing
> it at http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio104/Linnaeus.htm)
> *a piece inspired by Linnaeus's Floral Clock (can't find ref right now)
> *a wordless Canto del vagabondo : in memoria di Carolus Linnaeus,
> Anders Eliasson, 1979, publihsed 2003 (orchestra, women's chorus, boy
> soprano) (catalogue entry in Columbia Univ Library)

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