Music recommendations

Molly has never paid all that much attention to music -- if you turn on something she dislikes, she'll complain about the bad music, but she rarely requests the music she likes. Kiera, on the other hand, pays a great deal of attention to music. I usually have the radio on in the car, and if I flip away from something she likes she'll ask me to change back. If she really likes a song, she'll ask me for the song's title, so she can ask to hear it again. Car music she's approved of recently includes "99 Red Balloons" and Del Shannon's "Runaway" (she liked the "wah wah wah wah" part). In the past she's been a big fan of "My Best Friend's Girlfriend" and the Bodeans' "Good Things."

Ed will play her stuff off of YouTube (he doesn't always show her the video, but he'll use YouTube to play her the songs), and at some point discovered that she really likes early Pink Floyd (like Arnold Lane and See Emily Play), which she calls "sneaky" music. Because it sounds sneaky.

The weirdest, though, is her favorite: the Clash.

She also likes classical music -- not quite as much as the Clash, but quite a lot. I checked some Kronos Quartet and Joshua Bell out of the library a few weeks ago because she wanted to hear violin music. She liked those a lot, but particularly liked a Kronos Quartet piece that included a singer, so I tried playing her the one opera we have on CD -- Carmina Burana -- and she liked that, too. Her interest in these paled in comparison to her response when Ed pulled up Ode to Joy on YouTube a few nights ago. She had been sitting in my chair, with her back to Ed's computer, but a few notes in, she stiffened, and sat up straight, and then hopped out of my chair to stand in front of Ed's computer and stare mesmerized at the orchestra. So today at the library I checked out Beethoven's 9th (which we have, but only on tape), and some soprano singing opera arias (Danielle de Niese, I just looked the CD up on Amazon), and The Marriage of Figaro.

She also likes children's music, most particularly the Wiggles and the Doodlebops.

So. Here is my issue. My knowledge of classical music is limited and my knowledge of opera even more so. What should I play for her? (Don't feel like you can ONLY recommend classical -- I don't know anything about punk, either, so if you know something you think she'd enjoy, let me know. I'd prefer that it not teach her any words that you can't say on the radio.)