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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.
LK007 Edvard Grieg. Drawn by Ron E. Dabbs.
Born in Bergen, Norway, Edvard hated school, and some youthful episodes are
illustrated. At age nine he began to write down his musical compositions and was
sent to Leipzig Conservatory to hone his talent. Some, including his future
in-laws, did not appreciate his music. . . ."June 11, 1867 Edvard Grieg and
Nina Hegerup were married. Her parents finally gave their consent although
Nina's mother had stated that Grieg wrote music that 'no one will listen to.'
" Of special interest are illustrations of his concertizing travels in
Europe and his home in Troldhaugen, as well as his "indescribable tortures
before performing in public. He is said to have carried a toy frog in his pocket
as a mascot, stroking it as he made his entrance on stage."
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