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Anna Harwell Celenza
Anna Harwell Celenza is the Thomas E. Caestecker Professor of Music at Georgetown University. She is the author of several scholarly books - the most recent being Hans Christian Andersen and Music: The Nightingale Revealed (2005). In addition to her scholarly work, she has authored a series of... show more

Anna Harwell Celenza is the Thomas E. Caestecker Professor of Music at Georgetown University. She is the author of several scholarly books - the most recent being Hans Christian Andersen and Music: The Nightingale Revealed (2005). In addition to her scholarly work, she has authored a series of award-winning children's books with Charlesbridge Publishing: The Farewell Symphony (2000), Pictures at an Exhibition (2003), The Heroic Symphony (2004), Bach's Goldberg Variations (2005), Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (2006), Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite (2011), Vivaldi's Four Seasons (2012) and Saint Saen's Danse macabre (2013). Her work has been featured on nationally syndicated radio and TV programs, including NPR's "Performance Today," the BBC's "Music Matters" and "Proms Broadcasts," and C-Span's "Book-TV".
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Confuzzled Books
Confuzzled Books rated it 11 years ago
The art has a very free flowing feeling like listening to Jazz. The colors are bright, vivacious and fun to follow. The story is not one with much action but imagination. It is fun to read the words of how Duke Ellington and his jazz entourage might have been told to play the musical suite in ja...
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ereksonj rated it 12 years ago
The overall muted and restrained palette of Kitchel's illustrations made the colorful bits stand out. The flat style and strong outlines are reminiscent of some of Tomie DePaola's work. The girls' red dresses, the imaginative spring are some of the colorful bits that pop from the washed browns and ...
Shelly's Book Journal
Shelly's Book Journal rated it 12 years ago
Antonio Vivaldi was a music teacher at a girls' orphanage in Venice. The orphanage was re-known for its famous concerts. Vivaldi was asked to leave the school, and went out to become a famous composer, but still composed a number of concertos for the school to perform - including the Four Seasons....
Confuzzled Books
Confuzzled Books rated it 13 years ago
The art has a very free flowing feeling like listening to Jazz. The colors are bright, vivacious and fun to follow.The story is not one with much action but imagination. It is fun to read the words of how Duke Ellington and his jazz entourage might have been told to play the musical suite in jazz...
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