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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.
LK012 Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky. Drawings by Kevin R. Murphy
In his early life in Russia, Pyotr did not appear to be unusually talented, and
some of his compositions met with little approval, even by himself. His wives,
his commissions by Tsar Alexander III, and his famous operas and ballets were
not enough to avoid periods of depression.
p. 28 ". . .In 1885, the composer rented a dacha in the country town of
Klin, not too far from either Moscow or St. Petersburg. The area became his
favorite vacation spot. A lover of trees and flowers (his favorite was
lily-of-the-valley) he enjoyed working in his garden. May 17, 1892 Tchaikovsky
moved to his final residence in Klin. Restored after the Nazi invasion left it
is shambles, it is now the Tchaikovsky Museum."
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