Reference, Special Needs

Soundtrack from Paradise Road movie using the music written down by the WWII POW women interned in Sumatra.

by Helen Colijn.  Music overcame despair for the women imprisoned on Japanese-held Sumatra for over 3 years in WWII.

Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music by Don Campbell. 

Compiled & edited by Marshall Bowden with caricatures by Mike Rooth

compiled by Stephen & Nancy Tanner. 

by Norman Lebrecht

Barber's Music History as it Ought to be Taught, Musician's Dictionary, and Messiah Handel--for laughing out loud!

by humorist David Barber

More Music History as it Ought to be Taught by David Barber.

Opera History as It Ought to be Taught by David Barber.

This award winning film,based on the novel Una Vida by Nicolas Bazan, is lyrically interwoven with the music of New Orleans.

A Symphony of the Human Spirit.  Award-winning documentary of a Paraguayan village built on a landfill, and the man who built instruments from the garbage and began The Recycled Orchestra.

The American Boy choir made a trip to Terezin Concentration Camp to learn about a work they perform using texts from the children in the camp. 20 years later they return and are reunited with the survivors they met earlier.

 A homeless musician adopts a flock of wild parrots in the hills of San Francisco. This true story about love, nature, and nurture will touch your heart, and surprise you at the end.