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The Magical Music Box, more commonly known as ''The Music Box'' was a British children's Magazine . It ran from 1993 to 1994 in a series of 52 weekly serialisations. The aim of the magazine was to introduce children into classical music and to popularise this form of music among the younger generations. The stories followed the fictional adventures of two siblings, Sarah and Jamie who find a magical music box through which they are able to enter other worlds, most commonly as spectators.1 The stories were generally related to other children's tales or fables, such as issue 38 ( King Arthur & The Knights Of The Round Table ) or issue 27 ( The Imperial Robes ). The Dramatisations were produced by IRDP , Independent Radio Drama Productions on request of Marshall Cavendish Partworks Ltd 2 FEATURES ''The magazine was relatively expensive for children to afford, costing £3.99 (with a tape) or £4.99 (with a cd) per issue.''
AWARDS The magazine won a Gold Medal and a Grand Award Trophy for Entertainment Programming at the International Radio Festival 1994 held in New York. These were for the drama in issue four, ''The Wizard's Spell''. LIST OF MAGAZINE SUB-TITLES ''A list of the issue names and the music which accompanied the stories'' 1. Journey to the Stars - The Planets by Gustav Holst 2. Hall of the Troll King - Peer Gynt Suites by Edvard Grieg 3. Sky Racers - Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony 4. The Wizard's Spell - Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky 5. House of Terrors - Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz 6. Daylight Robbery - Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin 7. The River God - Ravel's Bolero 8. Night of the Aliens - Bach's Orchestral Suite No 4 9. The Bull Fights Back - Bizet's Carmen Suites 1 and 2 10. Animal Rescue - Carnival Of The Animals by Saint-Saens 11. Sindbad and the Kraaken - Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade 12. Musical Misfits - Mozart's Flute and Harp Concerto 13. Nightmare Gallery - Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition 14. The Highwayman's Mask - Viennese Waltzes by Strauss 15. The Dell of Time - Vivaldi's Four Seasons 16. The Big Freeze - Violin Concerto by Brahms 17. The Bowman and the Baron - Overtures by Rossini 18. The Valkyries - Music from Operas by Wagner 19. The Spinning Wheel - Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Suite 20. Wagon Train West - Dvorak's New World Symphony 21. Fireworks! - Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel 22. On Thin Ice - Borodin's Polovtsian Dances 23. Fire-Bringers - Beethoven's Symphony No 5 24. The Captain's Curse - Nocturnes by Debussy 25. Eve of Battle - Solo Piano Pieces by Chopin 26. Black Angus - Overtures by Mendelssohn 27. The Imperial Robes - A Little Night Music by Mozart 28. Space Envoys - Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2 29. Boomerang! - Symphonies Nos 5 and 6 by Mahler 30. Bird of Fire - Stravinsky's Firebird Suite 31. Lost and Found - Schumann's "Spring" Symphony 32. Pyramid of Khonsoul - "Surprise" Symphony by Haydn 33. Showdown in Maverick - Rodeo by Aaron Copland 34. The Long Shadow - Piano Concerto No 1 by Franz Liszt 35. Festival of the Sun - The Love of Three Oranges by Prokofiev 36. The Sea Princess - Debussy's La Mer 37. The Monks' Treasure - Solo Pieces for the Organ by J.S. Bach 38. King Arthur's Sword - Symphony No 40 by Mozart 39. The Magic Lyre - Piano Sonatas by Beethoven 40. The Great River - The Moldau by Smetana 41. In the Spotlight - Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite 42. Beyond the Wall - Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss 43. The Lady's Tale - Carmina Burana by Carl Orff 44. Outlanders - Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini 45. The Savage Flames - The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky 46. Sealed Orders - Symphony No 1 by Brahms 47. Caught in the Act - Dance Suite by Bela Bartok 48. On the Battlefield - Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture 49. Trouble with Time - Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain 50. Treason and Plot - Baroque Music by Albinoni, Pachelbel and Corelli 51. The Happy Dragon - Schubert's Symphony No 5 52. The Little Soldier - Symphony No 9 by Shostakovich REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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