A is for Oboe: The Orchestra's Alphabet by Auerbach, Lera

A is for Oboe: The Orchestra's Alphabet (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780525553779)

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A is for Oboe: The Orchestra's Alphabet by Auerbach, Lera

A is for Oboe: The Orchestra's Alphabet

$17.99
A is for Oboe: The Orchestra's Alphabet by Auerbach, Lera

A is for Oboe: The Orchestra's Alphabet

$17.99
Format: Hardcover
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This deeply imaginative and entertaining poetry collection details the pleasures of the orchestra, from strong-willed A to satisfied Z.

Two widely acclaimed poets--one a composer and classical pianist as well--have come together to create this extraordinary portrait of the orchestra in all of its richness and fascination, using the structure of the alphabet in a way that's entirely new and delightful. A is for the first note you hear as you take your seat in the concert hall, played by the headstrong oboe. B is for the bassoon, "the orchestra's jester, complaining impatiently through his nose." And C is for the conductor, "like the captain on the bridge of a great ship, navigating the composer's musical charts."

Onward the text goes, soaring in reverie and making thought-provoking observations while not taking itself too seriously--illuminating all the various details that flow together to create the nourishing experience of playing or listening to music.

Author: Lera Auerbach, Marilyn Nelson
ISBN-10: 0525553770
ISBN-13: 9780525553779
Publisher: Rocky Pond Books
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2022
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 11.20h x 8.70w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/15/2021 pg. 48
School Library Journal 01/28/2022 pg. 1
By Lera Auerbach
By Lera Auerbach
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Lera Auerbach is a poet, visual artist, composer, and concert pianist. Born in Chelyabinsk, Russia, she defected to the U.S. at the age of seventeen, and began studying in New York. She holds degrees in composition from Juilliard and a piano degree from Hanover University in Germany. She has composed numerous works for opera, ballet, and orchestra that have been performed throughout the world, including recent performances at New York's Lincoln Center, Washington's Kennedy Center, and the San Francisco Ballet. Her first English-language poetry collection, Excess of Being, was published in 2015.

Marilyn Nelson is a three-time National Book Award Finalist, has won a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor and several Coretta Scott King Honors, and has received several prestigious poetry awards, including the Poets' Prize and the Robert Frost Medal. She has recently been a judge of poetry applicants at the National Endowment for the Arts and Yaddo, and has received three honorary doctorates.

Paul Hoppe was born in Poland, raised in Germany, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he works as an illustrator. He has written and/or illustrated twelve children's books, and his illustrations have appeared in many journals, including the New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and creates his artwork in a studio at the historic Pencil Factory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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