Frances and Her Secret Garden

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Music

• We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens': Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of the Animals:Aviary and the Cuckoo in the Heart of the Woods.

• We hit Juneau from Danny Bensi and Sander Jurriaans' score to Wildlike.

• And The Waltz from their score to 5 to 7.

• And there's a total gem from George Mukabi called Dila Ni Dila in there too.

Notes

• Do yourself a favor and read Frances Hamerstrom's autobiography, My Double Life: Memoirs of a Naturalist.

• Do your kids a favor and Jeannine Atkins take on Frances in her book Girls Who Looked Under Rocks.

• And then watch Frances teach David Letterman how to cook a snake.