The Extraordinary Music of Mr. Ives: The True Story of a Famous American Composer

by Joanne Stanbridge

Book Overview

When the Lusitania was attacked in 1915, the American composer and New Yorker Charles Ives transformed the experience of this heartbreaking news into a musical piece. It begins with a jumble of traffic noises, then the hurdy-gurdy swells into the lovely old hymn "In the Sweet Bye-and-Bye." In lyrical text and watercolors--sometimes in dramatic wordless spreads--this thoughtful picture book reveals not only a wartime tragedy, but a composer's conviction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547238665
• ISBN13: 9780547238661
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.2" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2