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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.
LK010 Sergei Prokofiev. Drawn by Kerry O'Connor Hood.
From Prokoviev's childhood in the Russian Ukraine, through a trip to Moscow to
celebrate the turn of the century 1900, and lessons at age eleven with the
composer Geinhold Gliere, Sergei prepared for his career as a composer. That
took him to New York, Germany, Paris, and finally to fleeing from Hitler's
Armies and life on a collective poultry farm with Shostokovich, Khatchaturian,
Kabalevsky and Gliere.
P. 30. One day in 1949 the famous young cellist. Mstislav Rostropovich,
arrived at Nikolina Gora to discuss a cello sonata Prokofiev had written. The
composer, who wore a robe with a towel wrapped around his head, apologized for
his "rustic appearance." The two became good friends. . . ."
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