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Schaefer, Carole Lexa

Two Scarlet Songbirds: A Story of Anton Dvorák

32 pp. | Knopf | September, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-375-81022-6 $$16.95 | Library ISBN 0-375-91022-0 $$18.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Elizabeth Rosen. This fictionalized elaboration of how Dvorák was inspired by the song of a scarlet tanager that he heard in Iowa reads fluently, showing how Dvorák's American Quartet reflects that inspiration. Illustrated with color-saturated paintings, the book bravely attempts, without including a musical score, to reproduce the birdsong and to suggest Dvorák's own music.
Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

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