From Composer Highlights, an educational coloring book series, by
Leonice Thompson Kidd. The pictures and text on each page of this interesting
series tell the stories of twelve famous composers and their families-their
lifestyles, travels, difficulties, accomplishments, compositions, and maps of
significant places in their lives, as well as customs, clothing fashions,
cities, buildings, instruments of their times. At the beginning of each book
there is a page "Understanding These Words". By choosing the colors to
complete the pictures, students invest some imagination and effort into the
completed stories, aided by a few lines of narrative on each page.
Age 6 up. Good for studio, home school, classroom, camps, gifts or awards.
(For class projects, different pages can be assigned to various students and
then reassembled to complete a study of a selected composer.) Coloring Books are
8 ½ X 11 inches, 32 pages.
LK002 Ludwig van Beethoven. Drawings by Kerry O'Connor Hood.
Images from Beethoven's early years in Bonn and his practice and travels as a
child musician give way to his teen years as assistant organist to Neefe in
which he "wore the court uniform of a sea-green tailcoat, short green
trousers with buckles, white or black silk stockings, and a white silk waistcoat
with a floral motif, flap pockets and a piping of real gold. He wore his hair
curled and with a pigtail behind. He carried an opera hat and a sword."
Many of his acquaintances (including other contemporary composers and the many
women in his life) are introduced, along with stories of his trials and
triumphs.
