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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.
LK011 Robert & Clara Schumann. Drawings by Kevin R. Murphy
From an early age, Robert composed and wrote, and his later law studies gave way
to his love of piano. Lessons with Friedrich Wieck began in Leipzig, where
little Clara was getting rave reviews for her concerts. Their romance and
marriage, dual careers, and family life are illustrated. After Robert's mental
illness and death separated the couple, Clara's life with her children and her
music continued.
p. 31 ". . . .She never visited America although numerous American
students studied with her in Frankfurt. At least thirty of her compositions were
published, including her piano concerto. At the age of 71 Clara gave her last
formal public concert. Her diary reveals that she worried for eight long days
that she might perform badly. Nevertheless she "played well, perhaps never
better.". .
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