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Ives, Charles
2 Reviews
(3)
K-3
This partial biography of experimental composer Charles Ives features the sinking of the Lusitania, the sad inspiration for his famous piece "From Hanover Square North." Stanbridge also touches on Ives's inspiration from everyday sounds and the harsh reception his music received at the time. Cartoonlike watercolors, including a wordless ten-page section on the sinking, ably illustrate the text. Reading list. Bib.
Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian
(1)
K-3
Composer Charles Ives was "born with his ears wide open" to melodies played by his music-teacher dad and to all other sounds in late-nineteenth-century Connecticut. The deftly sketched scenes are overlaid with the sounds that were Ives's inspiration--onomatopoetic words, like cheerful graffiti, are rhythmically repeated in vivid color. This is a thought-provoking picture book, an unusually creative synthesis of format, composition, and text.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2002
2 reviews
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