Anna Harwell Celenza, illus. by JoAnn E. Kitchel. Charlesbridge, $19.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57091-637-3
The seventh book in Celenza’s music appreciation series is based upon Vivaldi’s time as a music instructor at a Venetian orphanage. Vivaldi (1678–1741) encourages the orphans to envision stories behind the melodies, but his nontraditional methods...
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Anna Harwell Celenza, Author, Joann E. Kitchel, Illustrator , illus. by JoAnn E. Kitchel. Charlesbridge/Talewinds $19.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57091-492-8
Celenza and Kitchel (The Farewell Symphony) once again reprise a segment of music history for the grade-school crowd. This story, set in 19th-century Russia, details the pivotal friendship among composer Modest Mussorgsky, architect Victor Hartmann...
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Anna Harwell Celenza, Author, Joann E. Kitchel, Illustrator Charlesbridge Publishing $21.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57091-406-5
In this intriguing history lesson for music lovers, Prince Nicholas of Austria forbids his musicians from bringing their families to Estherh za, his summer palace in the Hungarian countryside. The court musicians under composer and royal music...
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Anna Harwell Celenza, Author, Joann E. Kitchel, Illustrator Charlesbridge Publishing $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57091-509-3
In a companion to their The Farewell Symphony by Anna Harwell Celenza, illus. by JoAnn Kitchel, the author focuses on the development of Beethoven's The Heroic Symphony. After a brief biographical background of the composer, Celenza describes his
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Anna Harwell Celenza, Author, Joann E. Kitchel, Illustrator Charlesbridge Publishing $21.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57091-510-9
Bach's Goldberg Variations by Anna Harwell Celenza, illus. by JoAnn Celenza, picks up on the musical successes of this duo's Farewell Symphony and Heroic Symphony. The book opens as Bach introduces a potential benefactor to 10-year-old prodigy...
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Anna Harwell Celenza, illus. by JoAnn E. Kitchel. Charlesbridge, $19.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57091-348-8
The eighth in Celenza’s series of biographies of famous pieces of music, this account opens with an unsettling scene in which composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) and his poet friend Henri Cazalis visit the catacombs of Paris at midnight. Some...
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Anna Harwell Celenza, illus. by Don Tate. Charlesbridge, $19.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57091-700-4
Putting a jazzy spin on the holiday, Celenza tells the true story of how Duke Ellington recorded his rendition of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. Tate’s mixed-media artwork keeps tempo with Celenza’s vibrant writing (“A little Vegas glitz appeared...
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Anna Harwell Celenza. Norton, $35 (320p) ISBN 978-1-32400-499-8
Johns Hopkins musicology professor Celenza (Jazz Italian Style) offers an engrossing history of how music has intersected with American politics, policy, and culture. She covers how the law has shaped the musical landscape, citing the 1991 U.S....
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