A Musical Time Machine
Teenage Composers
These teenaged composers lived 100's of years apart, and spoke different languages. But we have no trouble understanding them because they all speak the language of music. Click on each picture to learn and listen.
Composing At Any Time
Different lives. Different musical stories. Much in common. Click on images below to see what is the same about composers of any age and time.
Make a Time Capsule
In 1999, at the turn of the 21st century, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio managed a time capsule project that collected stories from thousands of children. They wanted to know what these children thought would be important about their lives to people in the future. Music at Kohl is thankful to Miami University for the ideas in this page.
Time Capsules are a way that people in the future can find out about the past. Usually, a person will bury what is important to them, and to the culture around them, in some kind of container. The container remains buried until a future date, when people from the future recover it. This is similar to archeologists that uncover ancient artifacts to learn more about the past. An example of this is a time capsule that was sealed at the site of the 1939 New York's World Fair. The time capsule is not to be opened for another five thousand years, in 6939!