Nine-year-old Josefina wants to give up learning to play the piano until she sees how much joy her music gives to her baby nephew. Discusses the importance of music on the New Mexican frontier and describes how to dance La Vaquerita.
A terrible family secret threatens the joy of Honey, a teenage farm girl who has finally found happiness with a soul mate, wealthy piano student Chandler Maxwell, after living many fearful years under the tyranny of her religious fanatic grandfather.
In Vienna in 1938, in the shadow of an increasingly dangerous Nazi Germany, twelve-year-old Greta pursues her dream of becoming a concert pianist like her dead brother Kurt, despite a lack of support from her widowed mother.
In Vienna in 1938, in the shadow of an increasingly dangerous Nazi Germany, twelve-year-old Greta pursues her dream of becoming a concert pianist like her dead brother Kurt, despite a lack of support from her widowed mother.
Presents an introduction to the piano, in simple text with illustrations, explaining the invention of the piano in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori in the late seventeenth century and describing the other events that were occurring around the world at the same time.
Dramatizes the struggles of an African-American family as they consider selling a prized possession, an ornate upright piano, in order to buy the tract of land upon which they were once enslaved.
Introduction to the piano, discussing how it is made, how it works, its origins, and its role in the orchestra, with profiles of ten composers who wrote scores for the instrument, accompanied by an audio compact disc featuring their work.
