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.
LK004 Frederic Francois Chopin. Drawings by Kevin R. Murphy.
From his birth in Poland to his lessons and early travels to Vienna and Paris
the pictures lead on to Chopin's successes and sorrows, and finally to his
health problems, George Sand, and his funeral. . ."Chopin's funeral took
place at noon at the Madeleine. The orchestra and chorus of the Paris
Conservatoire performed the Mozart Requiem, with prominent soloists. An
orchestration of Chopin's Marche funebre from his B-flat minor sonata
accompanied the procession up the aisle. The organist played transcriptions of
Chopin's Preludes in E minor and B minor."
